The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 13, 1898, Page 4

ETE 4 BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES J. D. Atren & Co., Pt TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Wezxr.y Times, published eyery Thursday, will be sent to any one year, postage paid, for $1.00. The defeat of Hanna black eye to the trusts and corpor- ations. will Over in Callaway county, candi- dates for the different offices begun to announce. against Mr. Evans’ suggestion of publishing the pension rolls. Silver Dick Bland says there will bea “democratic sweep next year and free silver will be irresistible in 1900.” We understand the township com- emitteemen are being “seen” in the interest of a primary election to mominate county officers. Fifty pen on the police force in St. Louis, it ie said, are drawing a pension from the government for physical disability. Frank Seaman, the boy accident- ally shot by Johnny Brown three weeks ago while out rabbit hunting near Montrose,died Wednesday last. Cattle stealing from the railroad companies which has been going on for years at Kansas City on a large scale has just been unearthed by detectives. The Kansas populists, democrats, and side-door republicans will fuse. In union there is strength, so the combination in Kansas always get there, when harmony exsists. As we go to press word went over the wires that Ft. Smith had been struck by a cyclone and great dam- age done, at least seventy people being killed. Weare unable to get particulars. Missouri is rapidly acquiring the name of being one of the greatest fruit producing states in the Union. At the recent meeting of the State Horticultural society, at Moberly, the secretary announced from care- fully prepared figures that the apple crop of Missouri this year amounted to $12,000,000, the peach crop to $3,500,000 and other fruits to $4,- 000,000, giving a total fruit produc- tion in the State in 1897 of $19,500,- 000. This is a great showing.— Jefferson City Tribune. The notorious Bill Adler was con- victed at Kansas City Monday of murder and sentenced to ten years in the pevitentiary. For killicg United States Post office Inspector McClure, he was given ten months in jail. Thistime he killeda negro. The killing of McClure was a wan- top, cold blooded murder, without cause or provocation except to satis- fy his brutal instincts. It was sup- posed he got off with the light sen- tence because of his political “pull.” He has evidently lost his influence when he gets ten years for killing a negro. pective candidates, the Ties aims to treat all alike. Under no circum- stances will it take part in the coun- ty nominations except to note the long established custom of the dem- ocratic party in its treatment of the | two years term offices. That is, to renowinate the sheriff and treasurer, when the incumbents have made re- sonably good officers. This custom has become so well established that i 1 address | bea have | are excluded. CONVENTION OR TLON. thod cf nominating the of no concern to us except in eco far as it affects the ticket. It is claimed, and we think justly, that a primary exhausts the energies of the party before the real | battle, making it vulnerable to the That a minority candidate! is almost invariably nominated. That bitter feelings and anir The county officers enemy. sities are engendered which endanger the | cause at the polls. That it is next to impossible to formulate rules PRIMARY ELEC-|DURRANT, THE CRIMINAL lves of two soung w Century, Died Brayely, and Calmly. Girls in a San Francisco Church. San Quentin, Cal., Jan. 7.—When William Henry Theodore Durrant died on the gallows this morning for the murder of Blanche Lamont, 3, Who We re which he members of the church to belonged While Durrant was con v f but one murder under the law, held respon » by public op bas ° both Blaner and Minnie Williams Durrant’s crimes were peculiar in their atroc He are Christian h an thet of bis arrest was regarded as a model young n of lustrious | babits, was try to work bis way through a medical college. He bad beén a prominent ber of the Emanue: Baptist Church for several years, and for a year previous to his whereby those not entitled to vote| he gave such an exhibition of nerve|arrest had been assistant superin- | It has been charged) that parties not entitled to primaries in order to nominate the j weakest candidates. That under| | the primary system it is impossible | to make an equitable distribution of the ticket tothe different portions | of the county. That the only time! the democratic party in the couaty }was ever defeated was when the} lif he had been addressing an assem- | death lar circumstances. He walled to the and with as distinct enunciation, as blage of friends upon some ordinary topic of the day. His face was pale, his eyes were red, but his voice was firm and he stcod as solid as a rock while ke proclaimed his innocence | and professed forgiveness to those who, he said, had hounded him to ticket was ncminated by a primary) election. That at that primary, it ia pointed out, that in one towoship more votes were cast for a certain candidate than he received in the general election, although each of his two opponents received a sub- stantial vote. That the larger town- ships have a decided advantage over their smaller neighbors and the ma- jority of the offices wcu'ld fall to those townships. On the other hand the principal objections urged against the conven tion system is that it of manipulation by designing politi- cians) That delegates are apt to look to their own future instead of the wishes of the people. That rings, combinations, etc., control. Qur own opinion is that the objec- tions to the latter system is easier | overcome, by the democrats taking an active interest in seeing that none but their best men, in whom they have confidence, represent} 4, tho hour of the execution ap- them as delegates. proached the prisoner became some- _ 5 what restless. His father and mother HANNA WINS. were admitted to bid him a last farewell. The elder Durrant grasped his son by the hend, and the young man then turned to comfort his mother, who cried hysterically. Durrant embraced her tenderly and saying: ‘The hour has come for us to part.” put her gently away. The grief stricken mother was led to a private room, where she remained until after the execution. The father, however, went to the execution room and, supported by two friends, saw his son meet his death. There was not a bitch or ace‘dent to mar the plans of Warden Hale in carrying out the sentence of the law. The noose was adjusted, the trap was sprung, the stout rope held, and Durrant’s dead body dangled at the end. The neck was broken by the fall of over 5 feet, and 15 minutes later the murderers body was cut down and placed in the coffin. Consistent to the last, Durrant died professing religion. But he died, accepting at the last moment, the comforts af ths Catholic church in which he was reared. Rev. Mr Rader, a Protestant minister, arravved to ascend the scaffold with | Durrant, but the minister would pot sy that he thought Durrant innoceut, and the condemned man declined to accept his services Then it was that the onca ardent Baptist turned to the Catholic church for consolation, and called upon Father Lagan, a priest who had frequently visited him in prison, to attend him. Father Lagan responded promptly and performed the last solemn rites of the church is easier He Received 73 Votes—56 in the House and 17 in the Senate—Enough to Elect Him. Columbus, O, Jan. 11 —Hanna seems to have the senatorship. In the seperate ballots in each chamber to-day he received a total of 73 votes —enough to elect him if the men who cast them stick to bim when the two Houses meet to ballot in joint session to morrow. In the House Hanne received 56 votes and in the Senate 17. Mayor McKisson of Cleveland, the caucus nominee of the opposition to Hanna, received 68 votes—19 in the Senate and 49 in the House—falling fiive votes below the claims of the oppo- sition. The Senate and House both ad- journed until ten o'clock Wednesday. A joivt resolution was adopted to meet io joint convention at noon to- morrow to canvass the vote cast t)- day for Senator DURRANT'S LAST WORDS When word was flashed across the continent that the Supreme Court had declined to interfere, the War- den ordered the programme of the day to be carried out. At 10:34 o'clock Durrant, accompanied by Father Lagan, appeared at the door of the execution room. He was fol lowed by his father, a friend, Warden Hale and the guards. The father and his friend walkei around the the gallows to the front, while Durrant and his keepers climbed to the gallows platform. Instantly on arriving at the gallows, his legs and arms were pinioned and Mob Gets Free Jag. |the rope was placed upon his neck. Appleton City, Mo, Jan. 10—! The hangman was about to adjust This city’s streets were filled with|the black cap when Durrant an- drunken tramps and hobos to day,|nounced his desire to speak. Per- and by intoxicated men who were/| mission was given, and ths doomel not tramps or ever aflilliated with | murderer epoke as follows: TOWN GOES ON A DRUNK. Beer Warehouse at Appleton City Burns and instead of those of the Baptist faith, | had} }as has seldom been seen under simi-|ten dent of the Sunday school. In this capacity he made the scquaint- that scaffold and made his little speech | ance of Blanche Lamont and Minnie The Grand fae Bt ewdens ig | Privilege have voted in democratic | protesting his innocence as calmly.| Williams, both dl cf whom were des tined to be murdered by bim in the church where they worshiped to- | gether | Blanche Lamoot disappeared on April 3, 1895, aad was never seen jalive atterwards. Tbeodore Durrant assisted inthe search for her He | was the first to suggest that she had |joined the ranks of fallen women | After 10 days had passed the ladies of Emanuel church made a discovery which !ed to the finding of the girl's dead body. They found the corpse of Minnie Williams. It was almost naked, in the church library. Rage bad been forced down her throat, and a number of ghastly knife wounds showed the cause of deatb. |In the ensuing search Blanche La |mont’s dead body was found in the | eburch belfry. |gled. Worse than murder had been done in both cases. Both women died defending their honcr | Durrant had been seen in the | company of both shortly before they | disappeared. | believed that Minnie Williams was killed because Durrant feared she would implicate him in the murder | of Blanche Lamont When Durrant’s arrest was decided upon be was at Mount Diablo with the National Guard Heliographing Corps. A message was flashed on the sun's rays from San Francisco, and Durrant knew of his approach ing arrest even before the officers arrived. His trial! for the murder of Blanche Lamont began July 22, 1895, and ihe case went to the jury November 1. A verdict of guilty in tbe first | degree was returned in 20 minutes. Nearly 1200 talesmen were examined before a jury was found. Then Derrant’s counsel began a fight for bis life that seldom has been equaled) For 20 months they postponed his execution by employ ment of every possible legal point. Their tigbt was in vain, however The evidence, though circumstantial, was conclusive. Durrant was never tried for the murder of Miss Williams, but the evidence of his guilt was as conclus ive asinthe Lamont case. On the SAM P, JONES, BUTLER Opera House January 17th, 1898, ADMISSION 50 AND 75 CTS. Excursion rates on railroad. Tickets at VAN HALL’S, She had been stran | PRESENTS! PRES | HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS GIVEN AWAY. To Pezsons Ordering Dr- N H. M. WALSER, M. D San Diego, Cal r more of the ills that ft i | DR. PAUL NESBITT ih ELDORADO SP. | Salve y | hou ito hundreds of new homes ¢ mos Every Twenty-fifth person sending 25 1 sh Pre th | will rece | ent will re | hundred o | order will | worth S50 The perse of the advertis | fore a deed wi | advertisement m ts made p making ¢ tas well. very twenty-fiy tisement will ap 1 any safe way but nts, 4 paper but send stamps. the entertainment was bsing given, | with flushed fice and in a highly | nervous condition. He asked to be! shown to a toilet-room in order that he might wash bis bands and later, asked that the person who directed | him sbould say notbing about the | incident. When he was arrested at Mount Diablo, Miss Williams’ purse was fouod in He was seen in the vicinity of the! church at 12 o'clock that night, and | it is supposed that he went back to) the library where be had strangled Miss Williams, aud findiog her! afternoon she was murdered Durrant was seen to meet her at the ferry and board a west bound car She came to this city for the purpose of attending an entertainment, and it is supposed that when Durravt met her be made an appointment before going tothe entertainmest. At any rate, Miss Williams went to the home of a friend in this city, and at 7:30 o'clock started for the entertain ment. Half an hour later she was seen standing in front of Emanuel Baptist chure1 talking to Durrant. She was never seen again alive. At 9:30 that night Durrant arrived at the residence of Mre. Vogel, where . Disease is like a quick- sand; you sink into it a little at atime. It seems a small matter at first ; you don’t think there is the “Weary Willie” tribe. The} whole town seemed to be on a jam-|am an innocent man—irnocent of | boree, and even the hose reeled as| every crime that has been charged | the fireman fought the flames that! against me—I bear no animosity to-| were consuming the beer warehouse | ward those that have persecuted me, | of Herman & Co. not even the press of San Francisco, It was not until the fire had been | which has hounded me to the grave. | subdued, however, that people began If any man thinks I am going to! to emulate the example of the hose | spring a sensation—I am not, except | Then the crowdewhich had assembl-|it is a eeosation that I am ‘an inno ed made an assault on the remains|cent man brought to the grave by} of the warehouse. All the beer my persecutors. But I forgive them | drinkers in this part of the State all. They will get their justice from | seemed to have heard of the confla-|the Great God, who is master of us| | | we believe there will be no opposi- tion to Messrs. Mudd and Owen, } who have madeexceptionally efticient | officers | Henry Dorman, of Limar, Mo, celebrated bis 99th birthday Mon- | day. He was born in New York | January 10,1799. Heis said to ba/ as hale and hearty as many men at half his age. During the war he enlisted in Seventh Michigan cavalry in 1863, being at that time 64 years of age, and served under Kilpatrick and Custer until the closing of the war. He was engaged in some of the bloodiest battles of the war, being in Spottsylvania. Gettysburg, South Mountain and around Richmond. He also had four sons in the Union army. He moved to Vernon county at the close of the 2°* aa — rocke os war and residing there a few years, se : Pris moved to Lamar He draws a pen- ii Ce a GU . sion of $17 a month, is a total| Green Co. circuit court, forty-four abstainer and a hard-shell Baptist. | divorce cases have been docketed. officers, the mob attacked and cases of beer which had destruction b was heated otherwise fluid flowed body was invited to take a drink. in this municipality, and the j are having their turao, for they ar gration. Tramps signalled each all, and there I also expect to get} other for miles and the news was justice, that is the justice of an| thus communicated from town to innocent man. Whether cr no the town. It seams tramps always know perpetrators of the crime of which I when liquor is in danger of going to am cbarged are discovered, it will | waste, and a Jarge representation of make no difference to me now, but I/ the genus is always on hand to pre- say this day will be a shame to the vent the aforesaid waste. There was great State of California. I forgive! no exception to this rule in Appleton everybody who has persecuted me, | City to-day. In spite of the efforts of the town an innocent mav, whose hands have never been stained with blood, a go to meet my God for all msn” ythe flames T it the cont njured. Tbe amber ke water and every which, by of pass c beads to To night there was a warm ti to fill w William Henry Theodore Durrant gave his life in exchange for the i i “I desire to say that although I} \ anything serious cq about it until it you hard and f At the beginning Pit is only a little ry —~—— weakness and jn weariness, oc- casional head- aches or backaches, you don’t feel quite upto the mark. Pretty soon you begin | to lose flesh, your appetite gives out. | Then before you know it, your lungs a! affected. Don’t wait for that. A i As soon as you breathing feebly, cut her wrists aud | forced part of ber clo.bing down her | throat. | Farmers After a ‘Tramp. Carthage, Mo. Jan 7--An out | rageous ciime is reported to have | beea committed near this city this | afternoon. Kate Mars, the daughter | of a farmer living ten miles north | of Carthage, was the victim A! neighbor brought word to ber uncle, | ex Deputy Sheriff Walliagford, stat ing that a tramp called at the bouse asking for food,and as sbe turned from him he threw yitrol at her and further assaulted her. At the time the young woman was alone, as | her mother had gone to Carthage, and ber father and brother were! working on the farm. As soon as she was able she crawled to her sis ter’s home, rearby, avd soon the alarm was given and the pursuit of the villian commenced. A physician was sent for. Howerrious the in jury is can not yet be told Great complaint is mads by farm ers throughout the country as to the number of tramps, but so far but little violence has been reported Housebold Goda. The anciect Greeks believed that cork eat oe ate tiie the Penates werethe gods who at “correct pitch into con- | tendei to the welfare ard prosper- dition r s Golden lity efthe family. They are wor wee e = eos jshipped as housebolds in every : ution and | sas fteeekad oe quickly aod: baat: | bome. Tke houseb Id god of to healt ew blood | day is Dr. King’s New Discovery rapidly. - blood | For consu mptior, coughs, co!da and as o kes fresh | for all affections of Throat, Chest sue. it won’ 1 } help t won't |andLungs it is invaluable It has su been tried for aq and is guaranteed to cure, returned witbout this rter of a century or money sebould be ang-l It is No bousebcld good eni Free 3s Drag 21.00 x or old voung l bottles at H L Tucker tegular siz: 50¢ an > R. Champion's Magnetic Salve. It has always been! : is Special Inclucement. Mire. Ir. N. | souri, their school fand mortgage, which said his overcoat pocket. | Nervous ENTS! PRESENTS! -**Dr, Champion's M © Salve is a positive her known reme P ts kind before the Gs, MO.—‘'I use the Champion Magnetic utation as aninvalua’ Piles, B Bru in during the pres emedy for Catarrh, Ce +) tyear we make following e box of Dr. Champion’s Magnetic Salve 25 cents to $1.00. The first twenty-ffth pres. the fourth, @1 06 and so on throughout every aken. Th rson meking th 10, 000th 1 business property well looated and be afriend, relative or acquaintance tin the presence of a Notry Public bee ccaution is taken that all persons reading this ill be carried out to the letter. All cash nade As soon as without a su- ry twenty-fifth persom & present. Remember one and €500 In Real Estate, + send at once, Remit cent tw A School Fund Mortg: Whereas Mary F Harris JH Harris her hus band, didon the 7th day of Feb'y, IsH¥, execute and deliver to Bates county,in the state of Mig: duly recorded in chool fund mortgage Mo., © Vek | w described real os tate, Lots thirteen nty-three ( 18) and fourteen (14) in block ) im the villay f Walnut, Mise veyance w nt of one seribed, ar he prin- ton said school fund bond is 1 unpaid. Now therefore, in rounty court, made 1 term, 1897, of sald , 18%, I will procesd ed al estate at p to the public vendae, at the east front door of the court house in the city of Butler, county of Bates and state of Mis souri, on Tuesday, February 4, 18, between the hours of nine o'clock in the fore- noon and five o’elock in the afternoon of that the purposes of satisfying said debt, and costs. E. C. MUDD, Sheriff of Bates County, Mo. People often wonder why their nerves are 80 weak; why they get tired so easily; why they start at every slight but sudden sound; why they do not sleep naturally; why they have frequent headaches, indigestion and nervous Dyspepsia The explanation is simple. It is found in that impure blood which is contin- ually feeding the nerves upon refuse instead of the elements of strength and vigor. In such condition opiate and nerve compounds simply deaden and donot cure. Hood’s Sarsapari:la feeds the nerves pure, rich, red blood; gives natural sleep, perfect digestion, is the true remedy for all nervous troubles. Hoods Sarsaparilla Is the One T. ue Blood Purifier. C. 1. Hood & Co., Lowell, $1 per bot Ma ure Liver Ills; ea Hood’s Pills take, easy wo operave. Ze Notice of Trustee's Sale. Whereas WC Kennedy and Drasilis Ken- ore, by thelr certain dead ™