The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 26, 1897, Page 4

BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES J. D. ALLEN Epiror. ]- D. Atten & Co., Ptoprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Weext.y Times, published eyery Thursday, will be sent to any address one year, postage paid, for $1.00. The farmer does all the work and the grain gambler in the city clears bis hundreds of thousands. Wheat reached the dollar mark Saturday and the speculatcrs have made piles of money. What keeps wheat bobbing up and down like a cork in the water? When it reached a dollar why didn't it atick there? The county court of Heary county has refunded $117,000 twenty year 5 per ceat. bonds, for new konds to bear 4 per cent. interest. Ex-State Senator W. L. Gate wood, one of the best known men and politicians in the State, died at his home in Montgomery City Sat- urday. Tne dispatches say the Ruseian government has promulgated a de- cree prohibiting the exporting of wheat from that country owing to the small crop raised. Two-thousand cloak makers work- ung for New Yorks manufacturers went on a strike Saturday for better wages. High protection fcr the manufacturer don’t eeem to touch the laborer in the right place. ———————— Gov. Steruens, accompanied by the assistant Attorney General and B. ©. Johnaon, chief clerk in the State Treasurer's offica have gone to New York, to examine and check off the securities on deposit there for the Missouri depositories. Repvsiicays are takiog a good deal of credit unto themselves for the one dollar wheat. Of course the republican party of this country is directly responsible for the failure of wheat crop in the Argentine Re- public, India and other countries. After serving the Pacific Express company for 19 years, as money clerk, Chas. Krey, of St. Louis,turns out to beathiefand is locked in jail for embezzlement. He is short in his accounts $5 579 80. Krey admits that he has been stealing for fourteen years. see The news from the Klondike country is that horses are at a pre- mium there. Plugs not fit for butcher's meat are worth $300 a piece. Flour is worth $60 a sick at Dawson City. It is estimated that $30,000,000 cf gold will be taken out of Alaska next year. ey The remaining aesets of the de funct Henry County Bank have been sold by the assignees, Calvird & Lewis, to John L. Woodfolk. The amount paid by Mr, Woodfolk was $65,000. The sale wag approved by Judge Lay. By this sale the as signees will be enabled to pay about 60 cents on the dollar. Attorney General Crow and In surance Commissioner Orear, have decided togo after the insurance trast in this state with a will and stern determination. The Attorney General and Ineurance Commission- er will work together and when the evidence is in proper shape, Attor. ney General Crow states that quo warranto proceedings will be institu ted in the supreme court of the state directing the insurance companies te show why their license in Missou- ri should not be revoked. There is Only one way to deal with trusts, and that is for the officers to go after them. —_————— Nine hundred and fifty three cars ofwheat rolled into Kaneas City Monday. This beats all former re. corde, but the market was slow all day. Buyers were nervous and afraid and when the fluctuations were over and the market had closed No. 2 red had dropped to 98 cants. No, 2 hard closed at 91 cents. Cora followed the slump in wheat and| dropped to 32 cents for September. The reports from Europe of a bet- ter wheat crop than was anticipated | has effected the market in this country and may send the Price down with a whoop. wheat this year has a nervous when he goes to mill and reaches for bis pocket book Chieago furnished twenty four victims of suicide last week. St. Louis brought up the rear with four attempts. the latter city were all women. Wild rumors ot 1mmense fortunes having been made by the operators of the wheat merket are in the air. In the excitement of the rise gossips have become feverish and tell tales of princely winnings by those who carried through big deals. The gossips have J Pierpont Morgan of New York down as one of the winners and they credit him with having cleared $1,000,000; Charles A. Pillsbury of Minneapolis {s another whom rumor credits with $1,000,000; Former Governor David R. Francis of Missouri has $400,000 set opposite his name on the list; Joseph Leiter of Chicago is eaid to have made $500,000; John Cudahy is another Chicago operator who is credited with a winviog of $350,000; P. D. Armour is put down for $500, 000, and Former Govercor Flower of New York is let off with $200,- 000. There are several men in each of the big markets, including New York, Chicago, Kansas City, Minne- apolis and St Louis, whom many think have made fortunes. Most of these gentlemen deny that they have cleared anywhere near the amounts mentioned, but the excited gossips persist that such sums must have been realized rs INCREASED EXPORTS. Tue following in flaming head lines appeared in Monday’s Kansas City Journal: “Forced to Export. Evil effect of Wilson tariff law on this country. A big increasein Im ports. American manufacturers driven from their home markets. They were compelled to send their goods abroad and compete with cheap foreign Iabor.” Then follow- ed an array of figures from the Treasurer's report for the fiscal year ending June 30th. 1897, which showed that the export of manufac. tured gocds that year was $93,000, 000 greater than in the last year un- der the McKinley law, 1894. | Well isn’t that just what this country needa, and dosen’t that fact refute the high protection theory that the manufacturers of this country are unable to compete with those of other countries? But then this re port complains that the increase ia importation in these two years were greater than the increase in exporta tion. But the report dosen't ex plain that which is kuown to every thoughtful reader in this country, viz: that the importers waited for months for the passage of the Wil son bill in order to take advantage of the deceased tariff, thus account ing for the incresed imports for the first year of the Wilson law, and these same fellows rushed in vast quantities of gcods to escape the in- crease inthe Dingley law. If re publicans can get any consolation out of the Treasurer's report which shows that the working of the Wil son bill opened up new and increas ed markets for our manufactured goode, then they are welcome to it. —__—_———— GREAT DEMAND FOR PENSIONS. Neatly Twenty Times as Many Appli- cations as One Year Ago. Washington, Aug., 20—Commis- sioner Evans of the pensions bureau has had a statement Prepared on the number of applications for pea sions filedsince July, 1896. The Comparison shows that in July, 1896 applications for pensions aggregat- ed 2,898; while in June, 1897, there were 40,169, largely for increases and fur widows and minor children. Mr. Evans attributed this large in- crease of claims to two reasons—the hard times had mada many men ap- ply for pensions who had not previ- | ously needed them and the existence of a general feeling throughout the country that the claims cf pensioners would be given more favorable sideration by the present adm tration than the last. “Many soldiers.” Mr Evens ed, istration would not allow their per- sions, however just they might be, ‘nis- stat- The farmer that failed to raise | twitching of the muscles of his hand | ? The would be suicides in | “felt that the democratic admin.| F.J. TYGARD, President. CAPITAL, $75,000. ; Bates County I Capital, papers drawn. F. J. TyGarp. President. Jso.C. Hayxs, Abstractor. 3 $ 2 RRRRARAS 4 HON. J. B. NEWBEBRY, THE BATES COUNTY BoTiLsR, Mo. Successor to BATES COUNTY NATIONAL BANK. Estasuisnep Dec., 1870. - Money to loan on real estate, at low rates. title to ail lands and town lots in Bates county. securities always on hand and for sale, furnished, titles examined and all kinds of real estate Hon. J. B. NEweeery, Vice-President. 3. C. CLARE, t. Cashier. , Vice-Pres'! « A General Banking Business Transacted nvestment Co., BUTLER, MO. B350,000. Abstracts of Choice Abstracts of title J.C. Crank, Sec’y. & Treas. 8S. F. Warnock, Notary. and in this way thousands of appli- cations were held back until now. We are simply getting the accumu- lation of a long period and the work of receiving theee applications and filing them away keaps many clerks busy. I believe the high water mark of peasions has been reached and now the number of applications will begin to decrease.” WILL HAVE CORN TO BURN. Yield in Kansas Proves to Have Been Un- derestimated. : Topeka, Kan., Aug. 23.—Reports from every county in Kansas, giviog the condition and probable yield of cora, show tha‘, though former es- timates of half a crop may have beea ¢ reect, the generous rains of August have brought the late corn out s that its enormous yield in many counties makes up for the loss by ho: winds aud very materially raises the average. In only ten counties will the yield be a fourth crop or under. In eight there will be but a third crop. Ia twenty six thers will b» from con- siderab!y over a third to overa half acrop. In tweaty nine the crop will be three-fourths fall, and in! eighteen the erop will be full, while low fifty bushels to the acre. From yield will not be far from three- fourths of acrop, and may be very much more when it is considered that the great acreage of the good crop counties will outweigh much of the less in other counties. There is reason for believing that the state yield will not fall sbort of 150,000, 000 busbe's and may b> near 200.- 000,000. Rush Their Wheat to Market. Larned, Kan, Aug. 23.—Farmers throughout Central and Western Kansas are using every means possi at the present high prices. block the streets of every town in this vicinity and mills and elevator ara crowded to their utmost capaci- ty. The railroad yards in many of thelarger towns are blocked with ed. wheat were handled ia this city last week, and if the present prices are maintained evan a larger amount will be handled this week. The sit- uation is ths same in other towns, the shipments were never before so large. Asa result of this phenome- nal boom in wheat several large sales of farm property have been made, and holders have increased values 25 per cent. President McKinley on Prosperity. Bloff Point, N. Y.. August 23.— President McKinley, ia an interview says: “The caus2 of the present boom in the West is undoubtedly dua ina great measure to the large crops and high prices caused by the fail- ure of the crops in other countries. But the fact that prosperity has eet for inany other way than by the | Wise policy of the Republican party in restoring a protective tariff. | “The present bocm is not Spas- | modie, but will continue to increase, | and not only manufacturers, but the people generally. will soon realize Cons | that itis only with a protective tariff | to 973: and sound financial prirciples that i 5 ithe country will be prosperous and |remain in that condition. | “With the restoration cf confi. jdence will come a restoration of prosperity.” in fourteen tho yield will not fall be- | these returns it will be seen that the | ble to get their wheat on the market | Teams | loaded cars, which can not be mov-| Thirty thousand bushels of | in in the East can not be accounted | TRAIN MEN MAY HELP. Would Bring the Miners’ Strike Trouble to a Head. Kansas City Times. Organized labor the country over is looking forward with intense in- terast to the conferenca of labor leaders avd delegates to be held in St. Louis on the 30th inst. It is ex pected that this will be the most important meeting ever held in the interest of labor in the United States. Men ina position to know tbe sentiments of the leaders of or ganized labor state positively that it will not only result in a general sus- pensicn of the miniog industry in this country, but will effect many other industries as well. It is ex pected to mark the beginning of the end of the long struggle of the east- ern miners for living wages. The conference was called bacause the leaders in the strike movement realized the necessity of the sdop- tion of heroic measures in crder to terminate the etrike. That such measures will be adopted there | seems to be little doubt. They will consist of the suspension of such Other industrise, outside of mining, as may be deemed essential to the succass of the miners. The most important of these heroic measures will be the refusal of trainmen to handle cars loaded with coal. Tbis it is believed would force a complete suspension of mining, and bring the strike to a speedy termination. It bas been patent to the close observer that from the beginning of the etrike in the East the Western mineas have not been disposed to suspend. The order issued by the executive council of the United Mine | Workers of America, in obedience to which the Eastern miners laid down theia picks and walked out several weeks ago, applied with equal force to the miners of Missouri, Iowa and Kansas, and yet vot a mine in any one of those three States euspended CONTENTED IN MISSOURI. alking Delegates Work Withno Success Among the Miners. Rich Hill, Mo, Aug 23 —Walk- | ing delegates were here last week secretly agitating a strike anong the Rich Hill Tous far, | however, they have been unsuccess ifal. There is little disposition on | the part cf the miners of this field to go out at the present time. Opia | ions era divided as to what might result in case of trouble in Kausas | Some of the old timers claim that a week's agitation wou'd result in a general wa'k-out. Others maintain that the last sympathetic strike en gaged in by the miners is too fresh ia the minds of the real workers to induce them to repeat the experi- | ence. miners. | Wheat Had a Sharp Break. | Chicago, Il, Aug. 24 —Fierce | liquidation ia wheat and ore of the most erretic markets ever seen on the Chicago Board of Trade. After | awild opening at 964c to 96: for | September, country buying took the Price up to 98¢, then a decline that | toppled over “pyramids” and took | the price to Q1lc, with a closing | bulge to 9122, but ata Jo3s of 5c. | December opened at 95hce, went to | 98g, then scurried down to 982: and | closed at 904s, a loss of 6he. | opened at 9622, rose to 974c, broke and closed at 913: Corn veand sharply jower, de- | clining Oate were lower to the extent of 2@{>. Seeds were rattled | down the scale, flaxseed breaking 6@8e, and rye falling 4@5ie for the day. é | was acti May | SPANISH ATROCITIES. | § |Cuban Hospital Attacked and’ Twenty-Three Inmates | Put to Death. Eleven Burned Alive and the Others Tied to! Trees and Shot. | Havana, August 22—At Madon,| Matanzas Province, ths Spanish | troops attacked a Cuban hospital, | killing twenty three wounded and sick Cubans, who had surrendered | on a promise to be held as prisoners, | after a defense of balf an hour or more. The government troops fired the buildings, first placing all the) disabled mer, who wera urapble to move, in their cots, burning them alive. The others, eleven in num- ber, were tied to trees and shot to death, the coipses being lett there. The pacificos nenr there cama out afterward and buried them. sending word to Havava of the outrage. Col. Marston, an insurgent leader, a Texan, by the way, on hearing of it promptly hanged thirteen Spanish guerrillas whom he had captured the day previous, and whom he had in tended releasing and cendisg back to their camp. All through Santa Clara Province the insurgents are busy raiding the towns and doing much harm to the government stations, ccmissaries and stock yards. The railroad lines bave veen broken up aud the troops are constantly on the march, keep ing the communication open between their largest points and depots. As soon as one detachment of Spanish troops passes there is a troop of insurgents ready to undo their work. This has caused much trou- ble, and it is reported here in Hava- ba that Weyler has been urged by the Madrid officials to take the field again, especially against the Havana rebela and the forces operating in Santa iClara end Matanzas Provin ces. The palace officials refuse to disclose avy plans, but it is very likely that Weyler will make another attempt for effect on the new Cab- inet. The soldiers around Havana are in a sad state, considered as troops, as the manner in which Weyler left his commands at the fight in Man- tanzas has made him appear as a bad commander, and they have no faith in him as an officer or leader The raids made upon them in the outskirts by the insurgents bave completely demoralized them and it would not take much of an army to capture Havana, if it bad artillery. The cituation is very serious for the Spenish and the Cubans all feel elated over the developments and the present eituation Pittsburg, Pa, Aug 18 —About 5 o'clock yesterday a woman arrived at the hotel Victoria and registered as Mrs. Margaret Ferris Latera well dressed man with long hair, came to the hotel and registered as Francis Schlatter. The man admitie! that be was tbe Canton divina heater. He did say what brought him to Pittsburg. He admitted baving procured a license to marry Mrs Ferris and said the marriage bad not yet been performed. He was confused. Schlatter denied thit hs knew Mrs. Ferris was in the city, acd the woman refused to see the Lewspa- per men. When a baby is sent from Heaven, to gladden a moth- er's heart, her wel- come is incomplete unless she bestows upon the little vis- itor an abundance of health and cour- age to meet life’s a varying vicissitudes. 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New Orleanr, La, Aug. tonio Rickard, alias “Creole” the ne gro arrested on the Ellington plan: tation, in St Charles Parish, a few miles above New Orleans, charged with the robbery; and murder of 29 Louis Seigler, is actually staggering the authorities with the extent of his confessious “Creole” was lead. which included two Other men, named Morris and Wash ington, and two women, named Oc. tavie and Lavinia Alexander “Cpe. ole” confessed the Yester. day he confessed toa second mur: der. saying tbat he had killed Chas. Cens‘antins,ap:diler He pointed out the place of barial,and the re. mains were found today. Toeday Crecls admitted five more murdere, He murdered a mai namad Patter. son in St. Landry, and a year after. wardatramp at Melville, ia the same parish. In 1895 he killed negro womsn, Alexander Johngon, a colored !aborer, and sn old Spaniard named Alexis. The murder of Alex. is last June created a great sensa. tion at the time, and two Italians _ were Jynched for the crime The United States {Department paid damages to the Italian Govern. | ment only the other day for these lynched Italians He confeesed in all to seven murders, a'l committed with the idea cf robbery. erafa gang erime. Value of Missouri Products. Jefferson City, Mo, August 23.— Labor Comwmirsicner Rozelle, who ig engaged in cowyi ivg -information and statistics concerning Missouri for the Bureau of Publicity of the Omahs-Transmisti-sippi Exposition, estimates that the produe’s of the state for the past v ar will foot up $350 000,000 = Thia does not include factcry producta, but mines, agri culture, live etock aud lu nber. Cures Prove the merit of Hood’s Sarsaparilla—posk live, perfect, permanent Cures. Cures of scrofula in severest forms, Uke | goitre, swelled neck, running sores, hip disease, sores in the eyes. 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