The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 12, 1897, Page 5

To the Palace Hotel Office room, until our former room is repaired. We hope to move back in two weeks. li In the meantime, we shall continue to sell all | Men’s, Boys’ and }Children’s Clothing B Odd Pants, Negligee Shirts, Underwear and Summer Shoes at greatly reduced prices. } It’s Money in Your Pockets To See Ws During this Sale. Mre. John Boema, residing near| Pickett’s Confederate division | the cemetery, east of the city, isifrom Richmond, Va, has been in-| very low with quick consumption. | yited to join in a blue and gray re- | She over-taxed her strength the day! . z S | afte lees ofthe Sexe by ca asi | uvion at Philadelphie, next month | The Riek Hill fair will open next | |itis thought the severe cold she) | took on that day settled on her lungs. | Yuesday the 17th and continue four | days. At this stage the fair prom-| ises to be one of the best ever held | in the county. Butler will ba well | represented each day, if all attend} who have filed their intention. | The baby found in a box in front of W. C. McDowell's grocery store | at Nevada, Mo., by some youog men Thursday night of last week, has| been placed ina gocd home Ths Mail says there was no want for ap-; plications from persous who desired | |to take the child A third attempt by incendisries to! | bura the town of Moran. Kansas, a/ |place of 11,000 people, in Allen} The stock of goods ot the Ameri eek — proved auceessfal | Monday night. Erght business | can Clothing House has been moved = deen move”) puildings were destroyed and the/ |to the adjoining room on the west, 1 ati: SOR A) j | while repairs are being made cn the si is estimated at from $25,000 to) 330,000 | room vacated. It will take a week} | or ten days to make the necessary! improvements on the room Tiat prines of good fellows and | solid democrats, Sam Starr, of} ; Pieacant Gap township, called Mon Th ES ii “y lp igre 2 Bi PON day and renewed. He said the dry | call from ite venerable friend Mr I L. Smith, who resides about three miles southwest of town The old gentleman had a eevere sickness last weather had cut the corn crop just} about half in his section, and it was his opinion the late planting would, winter and we are glad to learn that be simosea faiure: he has about regained bis usual ony County Treasurer A. B. Owen, re- esived a draft for ninety five hun- dred and sixty dollars from the state treasurer Tuesday morning. This | meney belongs to the school fuod and in due course of of time will be apportioaed by County Clerk Craw. ford to the different school districts in the ccunty. John Dunn, £0 seriously injured in the well explosion in the west part of this city coms time ago, is able to ke up and out again. Last Sunday he attended services at the Holiness church and made a talk. Daon has lost one arm and aleo tke eight of both his eyes. Frank Stephenson, who bas bee2 visiting his parents in the scutheast part of the county, called Monday and renewed his subscription. He now lives near Kearney, Clay county, and was on his way home. This fall he expects to go to Oregon and establish a permanent residence. Charles Shepherd, son of Morgan Shepherd, of Warrensburg, was in- stantly killed Saturday evening The young man bad been out to per- tle Springs and while returning to town, stood on the platform of the dummy care. As the train turned a curve he lost bis balance and wes thrown under tho wheels. Soe ee sere een at at his home in Delaware, Ohio, Tuesday. Hines was an old soldier in the late war. He enlisted at the age of 71, and as he was on a fur- lough when peace was declared, his discharge was only recently received. He was the last veteran discharged His widow is 97 years cold and in good health. A singular case of sneezing is re ported from Hutchisov, Kansas. Miss Della Chovers was overcome hy heat a few days sgo and became unconscious. Being restored she complained of a eevere pain in the region of her heart, and a difficulty in breathing. Sho soon commenced sneezing and the doctors are unable to do anything for her relief. Mrs. Bridget Burke, a widow lady 70 years of age, was taken to the city hospital at Kansas City Friday, with two broken ribs and many cuts and bruises. Her injuries were in- flicted by robbers because she refus- ed to tell them where her money was hidden. The robbera secured $100 and aquantity of clothing. The condition of the old lady is eaid to ba critical. Walter Vinson, a 12 year-old boy, was struck by lightning and instant- ly killed at Chelsea Park, Kansas City, Kas., Monday afternoon. The boy was out in the street near bis home flying a kite, when the fluid struck the kite and ran down the string. The boy's hands were ter- ribly burned and the body was scarred in several places. The colored Methodists who have been holding a camp meeting on North Main Street, this city, for the Zera Rayburn and wife, of Jeffer- son City, came up to attend the | Batler is well represented at negaw Spriogs. | Coogresswan DeArmand arrived pe Tuesday at noon 4 Mre. Sam Talbott of Rich Hill, is Fin the city visiting relativer. % Oo. B ie making every needed arrangement for attending the en ‘Bempment at Joplin the 15th. @ Joe McKibben, who has been | spending several weeks at Excelsior ngs, has returned home. q Mri. 7. A. Black and Mrs Will Aimold are spending a couple of “Gy veeks at Excolsior Springs. W. W. Graves who is spend A. L. Graves, in charge of his during his absance. Constable Ed. Dalton is sick with a fever. down about ten days ago, and bed. urday, and reported two good Friday last. ; 3 What has become of our excellent PHame correspondent. He has failed to show up for two weeks ise Ethel Dawson, the lady who Mato take charge of the musical de pmrtment at the Academy, arrived day. ‘Capt. Tygard has been suffering Nor several days from the effects of pieg on a nail, which penetrated oot. | Sam'l Spears, one of the exccllent i a residing near Jobnstown, taunch friend to the booming renews. that town. Rolla the park race track. taking a needed rest from the good. % Butler, died Sucday morning | fun out of the trip possible. typhoid fever telephone for this city will be Stalking order by the last of the The superintendent began ing the wires yesterday. with his cumerous friends. came up t9 visit relatives in Cul” Garrison got ov a rempage| Mr and Mrs. Z. J. Williams fRich Hill, Sunday, ard stirred up denizens by firing off bis pistol Bthe treats. We was pulled and! Moff with a fine of one dollar. lark Davis, of McArthur, Obio, | ht the Alaska gold fever, and ing despondent over his fail- | to get there, committed suicide. Friday. The babe was just 8 was a very pretty child. The Rockville Reflex of th reports that Mrs. Jake Stirn, ing two miles north of that cit left ankle broken. She was a Rev. J. M. McBride will hold ser- | : ter ofa mile from her home at St. Mark’s church on next y morning and eve ning. Ser- at 11 o'clock in morning and | Bo'clock at night. All are cor | ally invited to attend. i the distance on her hands knees. ‘ry bave been elected assistant iers of the Farmers’ Bank. directors’ heads were level they made the selection. young men- more competen worthy could not bave been in the State. isses Bertie Catroo, Alice and ha Henry and Messrs J. S. rancieco, Bruce Ludwick. Clerence atrop, Will M. Crawford and Dr. | all, WW. W. Graves, wife and little left Saturday for Monegaw fings for a week or 60. week at Monegaw, put his brother, He was taken that time has been confined to his Capt. H. P. Nickell, residing in Homer township was in the city Sat- in bis neighborhocd Thursday and Col. J. L Pace spent Sunday and Monday in the city. Col. Pace has organized a bank at Poular Bluffs, Mo., and will become a citizen of Crabb, of Rich Hill, spending a few days in this city talking tair and looking after astring of fast horses he has in training at Dan Walker, with McKibbeng, is He bas stuck close to business for the past two or three years and the couple of weeks rest will do him The following young gentlemen are sojourning at Monegaw: Lester : Dawson, Ferris Razy, Courtney ‘The two year old daughter of Mr. Vaughan, Robert J. Smith and Clar- Mrs G. M. Rhodes, residing in|ence Owen. They will get all the Herbert Walton of Sedalia, was in the city Saturday sheking hands Oak townsbip, his former hems the sympathy of friends in the loss of their infant baby girl, which died old, and persons who suw it cay it thrown from a herse and bad her the accident happened and crawled Pratt Wyatt and George Newber- funeral of Mr Robert Clark, Sunday afternoon. The deceased was a rel ative of Mra. Rayburn. While io the city Zera gave the Times a pleasant call. He is still holding his o!d po- sition at the penitentiary—superia- tendent of the dining room We understand Mr. Rayburn is erecting quite a handsome residence in Jeffer- son City. past two weeks, will move their tent and bagin a similar meeting at Har- risonville this week. Rev. Dixon is a splendid manager of a meeting, and the order kept about the grounds was of the best The srr- vices each evening were well attend- ed On several evenings the crowd present, white and colored, numbered from 500 to 800 people ing a office quite since The attorney general of the state and insurance commissioner have taken action against the insurance trust and combine in this state. The trust has already begun to cut the rate of insurance in some of the towns of the state In Lexington, Mexico and several other town the rate bas been cut 25 per cant. A reduction of 15 per cent bas been made at Nevada The fight against the trust made by the Kansas City Times is beginning to bave good ef- fect. J. W. Miller, one of the good citi- zens and farmers of the neighbor- hood of Altova, gave the booming Truss a pleasant call and renewed. Mr. Miller is ove of the rebel war veterans. He saw four years of hard service, tcok part in thirteen hard fought battles and was wound: ed six times. One bulletstrack him in the center of the breast and weat through his body. He ati!l talks fight and says if it were not for his family he would go to Cuba and help lick the Spaniards. J. D. Burch, of Pawnee, Ok , who has been spending a week with his aged mother near Pleasant Gap, as is his custom once a year, paid his respects to the Tres Monday and renewed his subscription. He was on his way to Marshal], Mo.. to visit his sister, Mrs. Sam’l Cole. Mr. Burch is one of the successful farm- ers and stock dealers of Oklahoma, and by good management has made money. He said the wheat crop of his section this season was simply magnificent and corn was also good. rains is That good citizen, prominent far mer and everlasting friend to the boomiog Times, Wm. C. Hedden, of the south part of the county, spent Monday and Tuesdey in town, and of course ealled and renewed. Mr. Hedden belongs to ths old timers of the county and has two or three eons elso in the Jist of the quarter century mark. Ali will attend the old settlers picaic in Butler in Sep- tember Mr. Hedden is aleo assist ant editor of the Rich Hill Review, avd his weekly budget of news from the corn etalk district is bard te beat. Sheriff Mudd received a telegram Saturday from the sberiff at La- Cygne, Kansas, stating that be had captured Joe White, the noted borse thief. It will be remembered that White, while serving a jail sentence at this place, made bis escape, but was recaptured by Sheriff Colyer. His tims out, be was arrested by the sheriff from Cass county end taken to Hanisonville. He was in ja:l there ouly a short time when he again escaped, taking three other prisoners with bim Since his es- cape from the jeil at Harrisonville several cases of borse-stealing hes been Jeid at his door. Sheriff Mudd forwarded the dispatch to the sheriff of Cass county, and no doubt Joe is back in bis cld quarters by this time. White ie an sil-round bad man to be at large and it is probs- ble the Cas: county sheriff will keep a yigilant watch on him hereafter and see that he is landed in the pen- itentiary, where he rightfally be- longs. Sheriff Mudd went to La- Cygne and identified White. store. Mr. J. W. Spear, of Johnstown, called to renew his subscription. From him we learned that his wife, who was thrown from a horse in Jobnstown nearly four weeks ago, is no better. The entire lift side of her body is varalyzed from ths ef- fects of the fall and she lies im a helpless condition. Mr. Spear said ths horse his wife was riding wes very gentle and the accideot was caused by the anime! shying from the sudden attack of a dog at its heels. J. R. Davis and family had a pleasent visit last week from his | nephews, Rebt. L. Davie, local editcr and business manager of the Mt Sterling, Ills, Democrat-Message, and land Walter and J. Piper Davis, sons ief W. H Davie, of near Windsor, |Henry county. The boys bad a | tearing down time and expressed ithemselves as being well pleaced The! with Butler. They returned home when | Sunday accompanied by their cousins Two! Mary, Addie and Johnnie Davis, who t and| will spend a week or 80 visiting their found| uncle, W- H- Davis, and aunt, Mra. C. C. Bronaugh. He Lore have days e 5th resid y, was quar- when cash- No "Time Like Now To buy clothing. We are sacrificing all our summer suits to clean up stock. Don’t fail to come to us when you need a suit. Crash Suits at closin prices, McKIBBEN’S. fe ae ae RRRPRRARR RRARFRPRRR ; RS: S$ BR RRFPF PFS RAR RRR RRA RAR weer Ss S DARL PLPR RA DPPP PB ARRDR EPP PRP DPR PPPA LA RRAPRRAAD PRA TO I eet Ee age Children’s Clothes! | All Children’s Suits Worth $6.00 Now $4.50. | | All Children’s Suits Worth $5.00 Now $3.50. All Children’s Suits Worth $4.00 Now $2.75. All Children’s Suits Worth $3.00 Now $2.00. All Children’s Suits Worth $2 50 Now $1 50. All Children’s Suits Worth $2 00 Now $1 25. All Children’s Suits Worth $1 50 Now $1 00. A Few Suits, Odds and Ends, Agetto 12, at 50c. JOEK MEYER, THE CLOTHIER. wy es AP REPRPEIPPP ARLPRPRPLPPR RRPRLPPPPP ROBY. CLARK DEAD. A Child Attacked by a Hog. A terrible affair is reported from Carbon Center by one of the Re- view's correspondents. While the family of aMr. Graham near there were engaged in burning some brush their adopted child, a little boy, passed through the hog lot and was attacked by an old sow. The vicious animal tore most of the clething from the lad and, grasping his left arm, almost tore it from the socket. The arm was terribly iacerated, and the child is in a precarious condi- tion —Rich Hill Review. The Old Gentleman Succumbs to Heart Failure on the Sidewalk Enroute to the Postoffice for His Mail. The funeral of Robert Clark, who dropped dead on the sidewalk at the rear of the store building occupied by T. L. Pettys, on the southwest corser of the square, Friday morn- ing about 9 o’clock, from heart dis- ease, was held at the Christian church Sunday at 2 o'clock, the ser- vices being conducted by Rev. Wil- liamson, of Mulberry, assisted by Rev. Cayton and Elder Dawson. The deceased had passed bis 79th birthday December last. He had always been a very hearty and active map. A few days previous to his death he complained of a pain in| the region of his heart, and at times a queer sensation inhis breast. He had a forboding that something serious was going to happen bim, as he spoke of his ailments to friends and even ashort time before his death he cautioned his wife that she need not be alarmed if he should pass away suddenly. When stricken by death he was on his way to the postoffice to get bis mail. He had just paseed the feed stable of Mr. Johnson, and spoke to several persons sitting in the doorway of the barn, and passing on a few steps sank to the sidewalk and expired. Mr. Clark was a native ef Guern- sey eounty, Ohio, and moved te Mis- souri in 1879, locating on a farm pear Mulberry, where be lived until about 7 years ago, when be gave up farming and came to Butler. The deesased had been married three times, his third wife being Mrs Allen Day, of this city. By his first marriage he had quite a large family, all of whom, however, are dead except Mrs. J. H. Taylor, of Mulberry. He had no children by the second and third marriages. | The deceased was a member of the | United Brethren church, was an ex- | jemplary citizen and bis sudden tak- | ling off is regretted by all who knew | \bim. The funeral was attended by | health. A foundation, either in archi- imany of his old friends from the | tecture or in health. A fvundation | western part of the county. | of sands is insecure, aud to deaden | a Ses ‘symptoms by narcotics or nerve | The oldest man in the United | compounds is equally dangerous and ‘States is eaid to be Noah Raby. an- deceptive. The true way to build up ‘inmate of the New Jersey poor | bealth is to make your blood pure. ‘house. He is 125 years old andre-jrich and nourishing by taking \cently his sight was restored to him | Hood's Sarsaparilla. jafter ten years of blindness. The { oe z Hood's Pills act easily and prompt- tate of New Jersey ought to be| _ id ly on the liver and bowels. Cure e. Six Living Wives. St. Joseph, Mo., Aug. 10.—Albert | Kneeland’s record is coming to light under the scrutiny of Attorney Morris. Kneeland ie in jail on the chorge of bigamy. He has six living wives, from only one of which he has been divorced, so far as bas been ascertained. Mrs. Orma Kneeland, | the St. Louis wife, who caused his arrest at Las Vegas, is said to be the first wife of whom any trace can be found. Positive proof has been found that Kneeland was married in 1887, to a Miss Edwards at Butler, Mo, but he only lived with her a short time. At Independence he married Miss Sadie Davis. He also married Miss Elizabeth Cooper of Columbus, O., Miss Hattie Moon of St Joseph and a woman at Toronto. Ontario. Mangied by the Cars. Columbia, 8. C, Avg. 7.—Will Gibbs, of Harteville, S. C., and Tom Trimble, of Staunton, Va., were mangled by a Northeastern train near King’s Tree, 8. C., last night. Pieces of their bodies were scattered for wiles along the road. One of Trimble’s arms became jfastened under tbe engine, and it ~ ‘taken 67 miles before discov- ered. Wise Men Know It is folly to build upon a poor foun- dation either in architecture or ia ashamed of herself for allowing this | '¥ old patriarch to lie ins poor house. sick