The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 7, 1897, Page 4

ent ig § g RRS LONE ELF MTS ENN IE BH! BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES J. D. ALLEN Eprtor. J. 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 steamer Alki sailed from Tacoma for Skaguay with 50 gold seekers. Sam Wilson, living near Perry, Ok., shot and killed bis landlord, Henry Crouse The Afridi and Orkzai chiefs bave| arranged a plan to oppose the British advance. Ex-Mayor Fred Cope of Vancouver, | British Columbia, was drowned on the Skaguay trail. The total attendance at the Ten- nessee Centennial Exposition to October 1 was 1,196,685 Two young men held up a cable train a mile south of Kaneas City and robbed the conductor. Kaiser “Wilhelm’s “naval budget has caused such an outery that he as decided to think it over. Mrs. George Brownlee and two of her sons were burned to death in their home at East Long Meadow, Mass. Armed deputies with bloodhounds are searching for the men who held up the Rock Island train at Chicka- saw. The Orange Judd Farmer esti mates this year’s yield of wheat in the United States at 589,000,000 bushels. The National Congress of Mincrs |hear him was estimated at 60.000 | at Liege, Belgium, decided to make a demand for a 15 per cent advancs in wages. The chauge in Cabinets at Madrid will not affect President McKinley's original instructions to Minister Woodford A Waehington paper says that an Ohio annex has been ostablished in the Pension Bureau to help Hanna‘s} dover, ani declaring that he alone campaign. Bishop Gaines (colored) has writ- ten a book on the theory that the negro race will be absorbed by the| Caucasian. Heary Savage Lander, artist and writer, was captured in Thibet aud tortured with bot irons and by beirg Stretched on the rack An excureion train on the Denver and Rio Grande was wrecked near Catapaxi, Colo. Two persons were killed and 16 were burt. As another evidence of returning proeperity, the government has ro'd its claim to fifty-three million dollars against the Union Pacific railroad for twenty-eight millions. Webster Davis is now in 2 posi tion to do the graveful thing by Col. Bob Lewis. Being pie dispenser for this state he might, if he would Bob a job of some kind —_ . give From now on we will be found at | our old etand in the Times sanctym and will endeavor to not only keep | the paper up to its present high standard of excellence, but broaden its plane of usefulness Come in aud eee us rer It begins to look as though Korens and Webster Davis are going 1o overlook Col. Robt. E. Lewis, of Clintoa, ia the distribution of pie for this state. Bob ought to have something by appointment as he is an utter failure by election. Dispatches from London convey the news that the weakness of Pope | Leo XIII. head of the Catholic | church is increasing and that the! church dignitaries are afraid he will i } | not rally from the extreme feeble ness and exhaustion reported by his physician \ Some of the republican papers of the state are becoming so disgusted with the Filley-Kerens wrangle, tha: they are advocating that both be unloaded off the party and retired to private life. Nothing short of the grave will ever separate these tro | bosses from the leadership of the} szepublican party. W. J. Bryan spoke at the fair | grounds at Wichita, Kansas, last Friday to one of the largest audi- ences ever attracted by cne man in! the state. The crowd assembled to At noon Fred Cooper, postmaster at Lyons, Kansas, bought ticket No 37,872 and the flocd cf bumanity, the dispatches quote, did rot begin to pour into the grousds » that bour. At vight Mr. Bryan! spoke to 4,009 peopl-in the opera house, an? there were as many mor: on the outside unable to get in = In| point of a crowd of y;eople the day | was the greates: Wichita bad eve seen ! after | Paul J Dixor, W. O Swith and Thos. Day, the self constituted re constructioais's of the populist party, who tock upon themeelves the responsibility of calling a sate pop ulist convention at Kansas City for} fhe 6th inst to depose the old party leaders and officers and the state committee, pro a flash inthe pan The convention called off by Dixon, Day, Co., after discovering following Rozells 2 reconstruct was Smith & y talro od Carroll, chairmen and secretary of the popu- list state commitiee, ip a published statement, the Hanna’s beachmen, aud we doubt not they hit the vat] on the head. Thos. Day bas been in more parties than Atke son. If there was ever born a polit ical weathercock, then Thomas Day is the Shanghar rooster. call trio De J W Norris, who was shot at Paimyra, Mo. by Dani-l Rose on account of the doctor’s relations with hes daughter, Miss Kate Rose, died at the Baptist hospital in St. Louie, Monday morning after an uneuccess ful operation to Iccate the bullet After ths shooting Dr Norrs re peatedly declared that he would rather die than live a cripple, a burden on his family and friende. Several nights prior to the shooting Dr Norris was discovered by Mr ose in his daughter's recom Mr Rose attacked the doctor with a knife, but the youuger mon had no trouble in throwivg off the father and leaviug the bouse unharmed Dr. Norris redeemed bis manhood as hear as possible by hl ing Mr. Rose blaweless, declaring that he did what any father should have dene in defense cf bis daughter's was to blame, and lady was entirely wrong doing. that the ianecant young ef any Typical Chicago Rebbery, Chicago, Ill., October 1—Joseph Griffen was robbed of $1,200 yester day afternoon ona State Street car near Sixteenth street Ye bad drawn the mon:y from the Titmeis Trust and Savings Bank for the u-e of bis employers the Cicero Gas Co, The car was crowded, and when Griffen observed a mun leaving the car whom he had noticed in the bank he kecame suspicious and discover- ed that he had been robbed. He seized the man who struggled des- perately. The latter finding he could not escape. passe 1 the pocket- book to a confederate who fough: his way out of the The man arrest'd giv> the nimwe of James W. Martin. The police thiok be1s an old off nder nd cscaped _ Death is looking in at the window Nman should the importance | \ of keeping in a healthy condition | “those organs that | make her a wo- If she neglects this, she will be a man. burden to herself, her husband and her children. She will grow old before her time. She will lose happiness and love and life. It is easy for a woman to keep herself well and strong in a womanly way if she will only take the proper care of herself and use the right remedy for her peculiar troubles. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is a boon to suffering women. It cures all dis- ease and weakness of the organs distinctly feminine. It acts directly on those organs and makes them strong and healthy. allays inflammation, soothes pain and stops weakening drains. Taken during the pe- tiod preceding motherhood it does away with the usual discomforts and makes baby’s coming ea: Druggists sell it. Su It and almost painless. titutes are dangerons, Miss Edith Cain, of Clinton, Allegheny Co., Pa., writes: “take pleasure in expressing my faith in your * Favorite Prescription.’ After two years of suffering I began taking Dr. Pierce's | medicine and now I am entirely cu: I had j been troubled with female weakn for some time and also with a troublesome drain on the system, but now I am happy and well. i cheerfully recommend Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre. | scription to all invalid ladies.”” | = | Biliousness, in- | ion, and | Dr. Pierce’s dig CO: leasan % in the mor a cured positively Pellets. | j oner here | FARMERS’ BANK, BUTLER, MO. ral . We furnish deposit and check book | free of charge with each new ac- count opened. men. movey in bark th D. N. THOMPSON, Pres'’t. SNETT, Vice Pres’t. 9 G. P. Wya 3 5 | : ! accounts of ladies. RRL RRRRRRLPeRRLRPRPRPRLELP RPRPRRPRRP-A PARE ALMOST ANYTHING TO ELECT HANNA. | | | An Ohio Annex to the Pension Bureau, It Is Said Has Been Made. | Washington, Oct. 3—The Wash- | ington Post (Independent) to-day | says editorially: H “Is it possible that the Pension | Bu-eau is beiog converted ivto a! political machine? Here, on the eve of an election 1 Ohio, we are told | that Pension Commissioner Evaus! bas started an Obio annex of bis} Bureau, a forca of 22 clerks, so the story goes, having been deta:led | especially to expedite pension cuses | for voters in this pivotal State. “The unfairness which such dis- | crimisation exercises against deserv lng pensioners ip other States; the very likely danger that dses're to) secu e votes will leid to the extrava: | gant und dishonest expenditure of | public money; the debasing effect of | such a practice upon public morals; | in fact, the thousand and one ill; effects which are certain to follow | areuli mighty proesta against the | continuance of such a system. doubt the Ohio veteran is} deserving of a peusicn, but if he was a brave soldicr and 18 en honest mar, he willresent the circumstances under which it is vow to be railroad ed into his hands He will know, if he bas a sevsitive soul, that the pen- | sion id a mere bid for his vote and} that under other conditions he would | receive only the consideration which is given to claimants in other states. | If his conscience isso blunted that | he cares not how he gets it, so that | it comes at all, then the mcre reason ‘xists for a speedy end to tbis| system “The republicans are snxious to win in Obic. This is vatural end nobody begrudges them every legiti- | mate werpon with which to fight | their battle. The Pension Bureau, bowever, is a public institution. It! is a monument to the courage and devotion of patriotic men. It ought | not to be mada a political machire ” SIX KILLED BY A TRAIN. “No Frighiful Accident to « Prairie Schoor- er at Wilow Springs Willow Sprirgs, Mo, Oct 4—! A passenger train on the Kansas City Fort Scott aud Memphis railroad ran into a wagon coutainiog seven per- sons at Dead Man’s cut, three miles | north of here, at 9 o’clcek this fore noon, instantly killing s x and fatally wounding the other one. The train wes stopped and the remains of the deal and injured were brought here. Conductor Hellaway says proper signals for crossing were given but they were notheard The! crossing is considered cne of the most dangerous in the country be- a curve and aheavy grade. The s are now ia charge of the core} billed liy in Texas coun on their way to Arkansas cotton Rained Lend. Valdosta, Ga, Oct. 1—Shelton | Dampier, the outlaw slayer of Sam uel Evans Parker, at Habrira, three weeks ago, was brought to this citr last night, a pale, haggard and wounded prisuner. | His arrest came after one of the! fiercest fights cn record The posse, | which caught him ina swamp in this place, tired several hundred shots at the desperado, and be returned nearly as many. For four hours the fight was kept up, end Dampier did not surrender uctil ho was almost | shot to pieces. | There was some talk of lynching | last night, but the pitiful condition of the prisoner prolonged, if it bas not saved Lis life. He had eaten nothing for three days when cap- tured Mr. F. D. W. Araold is in receipt — of aletter from Frank White, ra ; an employe in the Lamar) se, but who has row gene to the | Klondike country, giving an acconnt | cf the ha ps to be endured on! such a trip: His letter closes with a pesiseript in these words: “There is not money enough in the world to pay you for making this trip. Never — i attempt it..—Lamar Democrat. It's much safer E. D. Kipp, Cashier. G, W. NEwBeERRy, Asst Cashier. « | & “ | |18 a regular democrat he jand if he isa bolting democrat he |erats to sitio jadgment on his cli 'democratie ticket will wia | compromising. Governor Bradley's | ington ; the neighborhoc d, made @ raid oa , Vent sicknes: Hoods We solicit the , a8 well as gentle- § to have | an around house. KENTUCKY POLITICS ING HOT. IS BLAZ- Personal Feeling Runs Higher Tian in the Breckenridge Campaign. t. Louis Repablic. H.S. Juhas, the well known law- yer aud democratic politician of Kansas City, stopped over at the Planiers yesterday after a two weeks’ visit to his old home at Frankfort, Ky. “The present campsigu in Kea- tucky is the fiercest and bitterest in the history of the state,” said Mr. Julian to a Republic reporter, “Pol ucs in Kentucky 1s always warm and contests are waged with au euergy and v:gor that do not characterize camp#izes in cth-r states, but the pendisg fight has created more ex- citement aud aroused more personal hostilities that were ever known be- fore. It is actually dangerous for a man} to start a political discussion at Frankfort where the war is bitter est. Not even in the memorable | Breckenridge campaign did the feehng run as high as it does now, between the reguler democrats and bolters. I look for a great deal of blood shed befcre electicn day —__ Brother! is ugaiact brother, father against son, and lite long frieadships are being brokea up. It bas come to such a pass that alawyer in select- ing a jury totry a case finds out what ucket democrats voted last jear befcre accepting those sum moned for jury duty. If the lawyer Wants Lo other sort of democrats on the jary,| wanis none but his kind of demo ent’s case. I confidently believe the reguler and that | Kentucky will be reclaimed ‘he! gold men are not as strong numer | ically as they were a year ago, but sre even more contentious and un-| bad administration has disgusted Kentuckians wih republicanism more even that hav- events at Wash- He bas emptied the treas ury and brought the management of a majority of the sta‘e institutions into disrepute. His party is also divided, aud this is gciog to aid the cause of the regul.r democracy ~ Sedalia, Mo, Oct 1—About two years eagothe Rev. L. S_ Garrett, priest of the “Brethren of the Church of Christ ia Love aad Union,” Iceat elat Faller postoffice, in Bentcn county and established a eburcd | | Oaks, as wis the made, is perf-ctly air tight, makes | j BENNETT-WHEELER MERC. CO. LEAVERS IN LOW PRICES. wu | Headquarters for Hardware | Groceries, Queensware, Stoves, ‘linware, Wagons, Bug sies, Road Wagons, Grain Drills, Sulky Plows, and all Kinds of Farm Implements. If you are needing astove come in and see otr stock, as it 18 the largest in the county, we can sell you apy kind of astove made If you waut to bura coal, try one of our Gariand best Oak stove no clinkers and 1s more convenient to operate than any other oak stove made: 80 why pay as much money for an inferior stove when you can get the genuine Garland Oak at same price. If you went to burn bard coal come im and get cne of our Hard Coal Garland Base burners, as they sre the most cheerful stove made In air tight wood stoves we handle the celebrated Wilson beater, of which we have sold more in the last 3 years than all oiher combined; they will keep fire 48 hours, are ab solutely ar tight, are handsomely finished and the only air tight stove with upper draft. If you don’t think they are the best air tight wood stoves made just ask your neighbors as there is one in most every home within the reach of Butler We have cheaper air tight wood stoves if you want something cheaper, but it will pay you to buy a Wilson heater even, if they do cost a dollar or so more than other stoves In Base Burner wood stoyes we handle the Peoria If you need a stove for a church or school bouge we can seli youthe Bg Boravza or Rattler, they are the best cast stoves made forthe price We also handle cook stoves of all kinds and descriptions; we can se'l you a gcod cook stove from $10 up. We handle the Peninsular steel ranges, if you want a firet cliss range come in and get our prices. If you are needing a shot gun or rifle don’t fail to get our prices be- fore you buy, a8 we can save you money We havea large stock and better arsortment of axes than any one in Butler, so please do not fail to call on us before you buy, as we can save you mouey. Come in aod get our prices on wagous; we handle the celebrated | Peter Schuttler, if you try cne of them you will never buy any other. We also handle the Weber, Mcline and Clinton wagons. We are still hancling th» Racire Buggies and Road Wagons, and ere prepared to make you lower prices {on good vehicles thuu waseve: made in Butler; so do not tail to see usaf you are going to purchase a Buggy or road wagon, a8 we can save you money. This dry weather makes water searce and you willbuve to go deeper for same, which will necessita e you patiing io a pump and possibly a wind null, so do not ful to see us as we have the largest siock of pumps in Butler, and can rave you money. We sra putting up two wind mils this week: if you need a mill we can fix you up one on short notice and at a very low price; we handle the Halladay and Woodmanre mills If yeu are buildisg a house or The name of the place was changed |barn, get our prices on Hardware to Jakville, and el! members of the and Tim work; we cau make you church were required to deed their! lower prices than you «ver beard of property to Garrett Recently Garrett ad love clauie to his creed. Finally this week ay I mittee. mede up of 100 farmer s from Jakville. Garrett had fled, bat the committee visit-d bis printing cflice from which be issued the official organ of the Jakville church, and completely demolished the contents Pure | Blood means sound health. With pure, rich, healthy blood, the stomach and di- gestive organs will be vigorous, and there will be no dyspepsia. Rheumatism and Neuralgia willbe unknown. Scrofulaand Salt Rheum will disappear. With pure Blood Your nerves will be strong, and sleep sound, sweet and refres Hood’s Sarsaparilla makes pure That is why it cures so many diseases. That is why so many thousands take to cure d Sarsaparilla cure Liver o Hood's Pills take, easy te operate. Se. i | Best No 1 ealt kept ucder cover $1 1 still | We bandie Coal, Bale ties. Barr you have alin ro uttering Or spo come in and see to put ch or to put up, our tisner, as he jcaonot te beat on prices or work. | Sy {We ars still selling herness at the! jold prices, regardi+ss «f the large/ advance in leather; we can sell youa single buggy harness from 35 up. We are algo still in the lead on groceries and can make you lower | prices than any one iv Butler; if you don’t believe it come in and see. We | will make you lower prices on flour in large quantities than can be bad anywhere else The reason of this is because we cortracted for a large quantity before flour advanced; we are eelling flour by the sack from 95 cents up We are selling coffee at 84, 10, 15, 20 and 25c per pound, owing to quality; po one can beat these pri per bbl Ali kinds of canned goods at lowest living prices. Barb wire. | Nails and pla‘n wire lower than ever before, almicst giving them awa’ Seede, Scoop Boards, Wagon wood- work, Woven wire bog fence, Rubver Hose, Belting of all kinds—ia fact, anvthing you call for We are selling more feed than ali. the other stores in Butler, because we always have a larger stock and lower prices; we still sell old corn at 35¢ per bushel or 3 bushel for $1. We bave any kind of baled hay you want and will make prices right: we havea large quantity of Bran and shorts and corn chop, if you don’t say they are richer than any t jyou ever saw, we will not ask you to j buy. j Oar stock is entirely too large to | mention all the good things we bave ‘to sell. so picess come in and see for yourself; as we keep everything 10 |stock and you can see just what you jare buying without having to wait 2 {or 3 we-ks to bave same ordered Remember that we pay the highest | market price in cash or trade for all |kinds of country produce. We thank jall of our customers for their liberal | patronage this vear, and if they will continue to trade with us we will be able to sell them goods still lower. j Respectfally, | BENNETT-WHEELER MER CO | Leaders of Low Prices. — LAST OF THE STAFFLEBACK Notorious Kansas Murderers Senteaceeea™ to Long Terma. Columbus, Kansas, Oct. 1.—Tb Stafil-back family was sentenced té& jday. Ed aud George Stafleoae— jcouvicted of murder iu the ficst d gree, Were given life sentences in t! pealtentiary, and Mis. Staffleba who was convicted as an accessory, ; got twenty ove years. Under regis. Kansas law there is no capita : ishment ES They murdered Frank Galbreath™ at Galena, Kan, last June, them robbed the body and threw it into an aband ned ehafs. Mike Stafile back was iu jal for burglary at tbat time, bencs was not implicated ia the Gaibreath murder. He pleaded guilty of bargh: a to five years’ impris 4 Statlleback is ieee orment as one of the prineipalped ee pen of the peddler aug in the murder ry throwing their bodi! tWo guis end shalt two years ago $18 auother old a °-; The search for the remains of thest SEES stopped until the é bodies bas been sounty court ap- propriates more mi : Sa of pumpingeey to coptinge of the shafts. y the = Ed Stefileback has been declared insane by a board of physicians ap- pointed to examive his condition. or some tinue he has been acting Strangely in jail aud seemed very much depressed since his conviction for murdering Frank Galbreath Ed is the o'dest of boys, being 36 years of age, and is the one who, the wit- Desses BW thot Galbreath in the head and then cut bis throat. In a recent conversation with a fellow prisoner Ed Stefil-back said that the trush bad never been told concerning Gulbreath’s murder. He denied participating ain it, but suys he saw hs brother Gro-ge and Charlie Wilson, Mis. Stafil-back’s* alleged husband, ki!l Galbreath «arly in the evening He says Galbr-ath bad a friend with him aud th. irtend ran away, but returned later in the night t> look for Galbreath He says hs locked out of the wirdow while in bed anil eaw George and Wilson throw a man’s body into the jshaft nearest to the Stafleback bous>, ove that Las not yet pan searched. Many persons suppose thet if Ed Steffl-bick saw a man murdered and thrown into the shaft described that msn wes Galbreath’s companion. Geor, Staffl-beck Cezi-s the story told be his brother Ed, and says he is not positive that it was Galbreath’s body he he'ped throw into an oid shaft. Many croo€ and conflicting statements have been made by the Staffiebacks and in their efforts to shi’t the responsibility of thes? murders ard place the blame tlsowhers some important diselgs. ures will dcubtless be made They talk of murder unconcernedly as if j they were the most trivial affairs end jfeem t> have never bad any regard | | j | | | | for humen | Executor’s Sal of Personal Property j tice is eo i eeli at | the enst fr eity of Batier, | folowing des* | longing to eaic One note of or before Januar, {nterest at eight per note of date Ociober w£Y ing interest at rate of et; . nam. Both ofsaid notes being SAW Henry Meim to R H Sproull, and secure bya second deed of t on 120 acres of land in St. Ciair county, Missouri. JOHN C. SPROULL, H. P. COCKRELL, Executors of R. H. Sproul, Dec’d e. for cash in han door of the court hoarse of Bate bad Millinery MISS KATE HARPER, 3 The West Side Milliner Has her new FALL GOODS on display and tne stock is as hand- some aa ever brought to the city. i } » | | Mise Clara Obermeyer, | 1 An artistic and experienced trim- ¥ from St Louis, has been ! oyet and Miss Anna Hulse, j {