The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 16, 1897, Page 2

| { { VEIL TORN RUTHLESSLY ASIDE. € dignant Initiate Sues the Knights of the Maccabees for $25,000 Damages for injuries He Claims the Order's Goat In- flicted—Tells a Terrible Tale of the Ordeal Through Which the Mystic Brethren Put Him. . U, Times, 10. Those present in Judge Gates’ court yesterday heard all about how éhe Knights of the Maccabees of the World bring forth the royal bumper aod let bin buwp. Whether or not bis playful cavortings made Lenna & Winslow a pbysical wreck for life is yet to be proven, but should €h1s be done, the members of that fraternal and benevolent association will find their sport is likely to cost them dear. Mr. Winslow, who sues for $25,000 Gamages for injuries he claims to fave received duriog bis initiation into the order June 20, 1894, nar rates some very perilous und trying experiences he had while seeking to break down the barriers of formality Ghat stood between bim and mem- bership ‘'r. Winslow opened his perform ance before the assembled members of the order on the date given above by being blindfolded. In this con dition, he says, he did a handicap burdle race about the lodge hall, breaking all previous records, his ehins, aud in some cases the hurdles Afcer satisfactorily establishing a t+putation a3 a long distance sprint- er, he participated in what, from the description, must bave resembled baee ball, with Mr. Winslow repre €enting the ball. FACED INDIA RUBBER SNAKES The next number on the program was a spirited go between the candi Gate for knighthood and a den of hissing, snapping India rubber ser pente, that writhed and twisted and twined their sinuous gutta percha folde about Mr. Winslow's throbbiog form and strove to fix with baleful, glassy glare his wildly rolling eyes, which, however, rolled still behind a bandage. But it’s along snake that has no turning, and ere long the form of entertainment took another shape Up the precipitous heights of « board mountain the victim was led, Gatil he stood upon the very briok of a fearful yawning chasm severa' feet deep. Here he was informed iv graphic terms that he was trembling on the verge of a eheer chasm, awful im its depth and impossible of descent except by means of a frail rope left by brother knights gone before. The rope was placed in Mr. Wivslow’s hands and he was io structed to take a running shoot out mto space. This he refused to do, and was forthwith tumbled off sans ceremony. Out and down into the frightful depths below he flew, until st last, with a sickening crash, he strack the floor, some four feet be- tow. With this grand pyrotechnic finale Mr. Winslow says bis per formance came to a close. That thie exhibition afforded the assembled knights entertainment, few who heard the testimony will doubt, but the chances are that the veat would have oozed out of their play could they have foreseen the fact that a $25,000 damage suit would follow it. Mr. Winslow claims that he was so injured by his initia ion that he has not since been able to make a dollar, for which state of effairs he holds the Supreme Tent of the Knights of the Maccabees of the World responeible. An Original Editor. “I was in a small, Southern town on business,’ said a traveling man, Swod had just left a store where I had sold a bill of goods, when a man approached ani began to question me. AsI was answering his ques tions and trying to get away from hiw, the proprietor of the store came out and introduced me to the queer genius. as the local editor. Then I began to ask a few questions myself; but before I had time to get in many, the town marshal appeared | down the strect with a prisoner, aud/ and went} ling. Before many hours had elapsed | |lefc where it could be readily found, | |as it was a few days ago. The letter | the editor dropped me, after the latest excitement. “<T didn’t know you had a vews- paper here, said Ito the merchant. “We haven't, said he; ‘bat we've, got an editor.” “ ‘How can he edit a newspaper) when there isn’t any?’ said I. ~ ‘He's a genius,’ eaid he. PLAS as ee ae Ot Butler, Has on hand a large amount 3 or short time. come and see us. — ever before given § FRANK ALLEN, Secretary. ‘fhe miscry of itis awful. USE ST. JACOBS Ohh i SCIATICA | You’ll feel it is worth its weightin gold. ‘THE WALTON TRUST ‘COMPANY, Bates County farms at low rates of interest, and on long We invite every Real Estate owner in Bates County that desires a new loan or to renew an old one, to it. Rates lower and terms more reasonable than ; RA RRP PRR RAL PR ERRR RRP RP Two Railroad Men Fatally Poisoned by a! Drug Labeled ‘Port Wine.’ i Newton, Kansas, Dee. 8.—Jobn | White and Bart Brindley, brakemen, | jand James Shephard, a fireman. of | wos Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe} railway, dravk what they supposed | jto be port wing at Florence last; Wednesday night, and Brindley is| dead, Shephard, dying ani W bite! & | very low The train on which the men were employed was detained at Florence, and the men went to a restaurant for lunch. They saw a bottle labeled “port wine,” and jokingly called for Each was given a glass. In an hour's time all were taken violently |; sick, and the company’s physician attended them He pronounced it arsenical poiscn The mea were taken to their homes, and, after much suffering, Briadley died Sun day at Emporia,where the men lived Shephard’s death is expected every Missouri, of money to be loaned on in Bates county. WM. E. WALTON, President. “ ‘He doesn’t look it,’ said I “*Well, I'll tell you what that; chap doee, and what he has been | doing for a year or more. You know we have a population of seven or eight hundred here, and we don’t get a daily paper here until it is eighteen hours old, and then we don’t get it regularly. Well, what did that chap do but beg a corner in the room where the postoffice is. and there he put an old arm chair some one gave him, and called it the editorial rooms of the “Perpetual Gazette” At firat people laughed at him, but he went around every where in town gathering the news, exactly as if he were going to print it, and he knew how. for he had been a bright newspaper man once. Then he would collect a group of people and offer to tell all he knew for five cents from each listener, or sometimes he would get up on a barrel outside of the office, and, after telling what he bad to tell, he would pass the hat and collect some times as much as fifty or seventy tive cents. He always gota lot of news out of the daily paper, and supplied it fresh every morning or the day atter. I have often bad him come in here at night, and for a quarter of a dollar got an bour or more of enter tainment out of him, besides getting the news. He reade stories in the papers, too, and if annbody wants to hear stories he can give all the cur- rent ones at so much a listener.’ ” The person who disturbed the con- gregation last Sunday by coughing is requested to callon A J Trimble and get a bottle of Foley’s Honey and Tar, which always gives relief. Accepted by Viss Bradley. Washington, Dec. 8.—John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy, has received the following letter from Mies Christine Bradley, daughter of | the governor of Kentucky. “Kentucky. the ‘firstborn of the Union, is justly proud of the dis tioction proffered in giviog her name to the magnificent battle ship soon to be launched at Newport News. It may not be inappropriate cr vain to say that the valiant record made by her sons on land and sea entitles her to the compliment. “Kindly accept my sincere thanks | for the honor with which you have clothed an uopretentious but ardent | Kentucky girl who loves her state | second only to her country. “It will give me much pleasure to assist in the ceremonies of the occa sion which should eerve, if possible, to bind the sympathies of every citi- | zen of Kentucky more closely to the nation.” For Poeumonia. Dr JC Bishop, of Angew, Mich. says: “I have used Foley's Honey and Tar in three cases of pneumonia Remarkable Confession of a Waverly,|and his wife waited on them She Fales bas confessed her ehare io the|tism medicine, though how it hap tragic death of Jerome Kern man was found dead wood on the 23rd of last August,|have tried to keep the affuir secret. aod the woman now confesses that she fired the bullets that killed him. She was indicted to day, and it is Hennes food drink called GRAT.O% Iv ie de- said that her alleged accomplice be- fore th- fact, Kern, a son of the vic yeare, she charges that the elder ; well as I did the night I fired those} mark tho resting | says her confession. | ways and, as he fell forward, I shot the past month, with good results.” At J A Trimble’s drugstore. Chicago, Dec. 8.—Harry Elbrige Pratt died yesterday at his home, | 937 West Polk street, after an illness | the door of John Lewis. of considerably less than a week. tooth removed, anda dentist imme- diately placed a cap over the open- the tooth began to give Pratt great | Pain, and he grew rapidly worse. | Physicians pronounced it a case of | blood poisoning, and all efforts to| Mr. | save his life proved fruitless. Pratt was well known as a ycunger member of the bar of Chicago. | not understand him. I don’t know Killed by a Dentist’s Work. i Last Tuesday he had the nerve ina! minute The keeper of the restaurant was away when the men ate their lunch, ADMITs SHE Is A MURDERESS. Iv., Young Woman. Waverly, Ia, Dec. was igoorant of thebottle’s contents. 9 —Delilab | Now it is stated that it was rheuma- Th | pened to baye arsenic in it is not in a lonely|known. The people of Florence What Do the Children Drink? n’t give them tea orcoflee. Have you tried licous and nourishing and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-O vou give the chil- dren the more health you distribute through their sytems Grain-O is made of pure grains tim, wail be indicted to morrow. | S4NNEN HOTA gett tod fag When she was a mere child of 13] ™8°h- All groceraseil it. 150 and 2c. Raised Monument to a Foe. Kern betrayed her and that ever] Martinsburg, West Va, December since he has harrassed her with bis}§ —John D Suttop, whose appoiut- attentions. More than that be|mentas storekeeper at the Hannis sought blackening her reputation, | distillery here is eubject to the deci she states, to keep others from pay | sion of the supreme court in the in ing court to her Twice, before she|juvction casea against Collector tad become attached to the murder | White, has erected a mooument ed man’s son, she had been in a fair| over the grave of Col Pat Duffy, way to become happily married, but| whose body lies in a Charlesto: as many times bad Jerome Kern,|cemetery One was a confederate sbe declares, poisoned her lovers/and the other a federal soldier. The against her. At last, when by the|Suttons, Duffys aud Kellys (Col same method he sought to prevent} Duffy’s mother was a Kelly) had his son from marrying her, the pent} always been neighbors and close up hatred of years vented itself in|friends. When the covfederates the commission of the crime. camped on Mr. Sutton’s father’s GLAD SHE KILLED HIM. farm it was by the request of Col. “T killed him with premeditation | Duffy trat the house avd its con and deliberation,” she said. “I tents were protected, although John prayed God to give me strength to|/Sutton was in the union army, and do it with all the earnestness that Ij bis father was a strong unicn man could command, as I have prayed| When visiting the Charleston ceme- Him for forgivenees. I have suffer |tery recently Mr. Sutton’s attentien ed no pangs of conscience. On the] was called to the unmarked grave cf contrary a restful calm seemed to|Col. Duffy, and remembering with come into my life the moment IJ gratitude the noble qualities of his knew he was dead. I never slept 20| chivalrous nature, he decided to thus place of bis friend fatal shots.” Mies Fales’ confession starts by Speoaricuwee, telling of the love affair of herself Coated, Rote ear ll your eycs and young Kern and of the opposi | dull and ‘inflamed and do you teel mean tion of the father. They discussed Hee eis et Up lca ieee question of putting him out of the|doingtheir work. Why don’t you taxe way and they agreed that that] You'feci beter it costs you nothing= would be the best way out of the Sold oy H.T Tucker difficulties. One day the elder Kern RY ee SEAR suggested to the young woman that| Artbur Rozelle, etate labor com- she meet him. She saw here the! ™issioner of Missouri, will recom- opportunity that ehe had been wait-| ed io his report the creation of a and benefactor ling for, and she assented, making|4epartment of immigration or of jan appointment for the following some orzanization to take the place or do the work of the o!d Missouri Immigration society, which went out of existences twenty years ago Mr Rozelle is of the opinioa that a majority of native Miesourians bare only vague ideas of the mineral wealth of the state. He might add that the ideas of thie majority are equally vague conceraing the extent morsing in the woods near her home. They met and he assisted her to alight from the vehicle. KILLED WMILE ON HIS KNEES. “He was on his knees before me,” “I saw wy chance to kill him. I had the revol- ver just inside my coat, which was buttoned up. Ashe was kneeling there. I pulled the revolver out and shot him quickly in the breast. He whirled round on his knees a little state. missioner states that there ie room for 10,000 additional homesin South ern Missouri on th? government lands. him io the right of the back. After the first shot he said: ‘Lile’-—some thing—I don’t know what. I could outsiders? Everything whether his clothes caught fire or known abdut Missouri ani io ad not. I hurried away.” Then follows a detail of the plot- ting of the two to lay the crime at | mae: jaod it isa correct one —K. C. Star. jout, should be made public every a former} lover of Delilab’s. They even pre | pared a letter purporting to have beén written by the deceased on the Hoc oo nes Conc es day of the murder. To Cure Constipation Forever. and whi b VESTS pea ee ae Captain Seibert, U. S. | beers, says that the St. F jis not worthy of improver | dams and lecks. To Cure a Cold in One Day. said that if harm came to Kern,: Lewis must be held responsible. 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Of Interest to Masons, In the written lore of Masonry it is told that the order had its birth in the cave quarries beneath Mount Lebanon, where the workmen of Solomon's temple gathered at night and bound themselves io a brother- hood uniting in the triple cause of mutual protection, learning and truth. On the 19th of next month the Masons of Arizona will return to the first principles of the order At Bisbee, a very unsightly and prosaic mipining camp, the miners, in drift- ing, broke through the side of a wonderful subterranean chamber. The room is about an acre in area, twenty feet in height, and 300 feet below the surface of the earth. It will ba used by the Masons as a lodge room just as it left the hand of nature. It is said -to be a place ot most surpassing beauty, with fluted and frescoed roof, with won- drous columns and pillara, such as mortals could never hew; the walls, the spotless white of purity, with here and there a stripe of the blue of truth. 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