The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 24, 1898, Page 1

e of Butler, Par CAPITAL, - Receives Deposits subject to Check your money. Dr. T. C. Boutware, C. R Ravrorp, Dr. J. M. Cunisry, J. R. Jexxrss, Cashier. of Butler, Have on hand a large amount of M at LOWEST RATES and on libera’ back part or all at any time and ed to call and get rates. in Bates County. Administrator. T. J. Wriaut, Vice-President. r, don’t blame usif we bear ’em say appens you. Miss Emma Park of Butler, attend- ed the last day of school at Virginia Tuesday. Elder Coffey of the Christian church at Sprague, spent a few days around Virginia last week in the in- terest of the Sabbath school work. There were three meetings at Vir- inia Thursday night. Epworth ue at the M E church, preaehing atthe Christian church, Woodmen at the hall, alsoa prayer meeting at Rev Hulet’s, half-imile west of town. Mrs A W Simpson was on the sick list a few days last week. Will Arnold of Butler, one of the Scully agents, was out looking after their land around Virginia, last week. Miss Nettie Yeoman of Butler, is visiting relatives round Virginia this week. Grant Park has purchased the Weatherwax farin. The township board met at Vir- ginia Saturday. _ Oscar Hensley of Kansas City, vis- ited relatives here Saturday and Sunday, returning home Monday. Geo Jenkins, bookkeeper in the Bank of Commerce at Kansas City. is visiting his parents, Mr and Mrs B F Jenkins, fora few days. Miss Verna Cook is visiting old friends at Foster. Mrs Geo Thompson received a let- ter from her mother, living in Texas county, Mo., who has been very sick for some time, is getting better. Miss Sadie Whinnery joined the Christian church Sabbath night. THE MISSOURI STATE BANK, and does a general Panking business, ronage, promising prompt eervice and absolute safe depository for — DIRECTORS — Joun DrerweEster, T. J. Wricur, J. R. JENK1Ns, The Walton Trust Gompany, | Pap UP CAPITAL, - - $55.000 00. new loans, or desiring low rate money to pay off old loans, are invit- Have complete Abstracts to all Real Estate Authorized by law to act as Assignee, Receiver, Trustee, Executor or Frank ALien, Secretary. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY MARCH 24, 1898. Missouri. - = $55.000 00. , Loans Money, Issues Exchange We will appreciate your pat- Booker Powe t, F. M. Voris. Wa. E Watroy. Wa. E. Warron, President. Missouri. oney to be loaned on Real Estate | l terms, allowing borrowers to pay stop interest. Farmers wanting Wn. E. Warton, President. | | ler, were out to see Uncle Billy Dr dale, Sund. The Christian church was well fill- ed Sunday morning and night to hear Elder Joe Wright of Hannibal, preach. He will continue the meet- ing during the week. Rev WT Pyle, the new preacher on Butler M E circuit, will preach at the M Echurch at Virginia next Sun- day night. Virginia was quiet last week, the people were busy at work. The band was talked of some; the instruments came Saturday and the boys tried them Quite a number of candi- dates were in and around Virginia last week. Sofar as we can learn they failed to callat prohibition head- quarters. We suppose they do not want the advice of the prohibition- ists or thei: votes either. So faras wecan learn, they were all men capable of filling the offices they are working for. We believe they should see all the voters, by that means would get near the people. Rev Hulett of the Free Methodist, will preach at the Crook school house next Sunday. Uncle Israel Nestlerode tells us that his hand which he mashed some time ago, is not healing very fast. Miss Anna Leach of Chicago, visit- ed Mrs D C Wolfe last Saturday. Born, to the wife of Mr Yates, liv- ing on the Ruble farm, Wednesday, a boy. C W Hensley shipped hogs to Kan- sas City Tuesday. Tuesday morning’s report: S T Brown no better. Uncle Billy Drys | dale no better, still getting weaker. AARON. Two Men Killed. Rey Hulet informed us Sunday night that his little girl, who has been quite sick fora few days, was getting better. Rev Herald and wife of Kansas, are holding a Holiness meeting at Miami Center. Will Heckadon visited his brothers John and Julius and sister, Mrs Wm Bones at Rich Hill last week. John Allen was out inanew buggy Sunday. . Everett Drysdale and wife, of But- DUVALL & PERCIVAL| OBUTLER, MO: Fa RM BROAN SS, » Money to loan on farms at reduced ratesiof 3 Your notes are payable at our office } &md you find them here when due. Interest. You privilege to pay any time, yh as papers are 6! . We give Money? ready | Muscogee, I T, March 18—A | double killiag oceurred at Clarem re| | Muscogee, I. T., March 21.—Re- last night. Deputy Marshal Arnold and a horse trader named Jobnson ‘lost their lives. Arnold had arrested | Johnson for beating a woman over | the head. When Arnold attempted | to handcuff Johnson the latter pull- eda pistol and shot Arnold, killing | him iastantly. Jehnsoa then turned | on Arnold’s posse man but he was | too quick for him and fired first kill- | ing Johnson instantly. BLADDER TROUBLES, | | | | pose, namely a receptacle tor the urine, | and as such it is not liable to a form | of disease except by one of t ways. |The first is from | the kidneys. The second way is tor care less local treatment of other di SAMPLE SENT FREE. Unhealthy urine from unhealthy kid- neys is the chief cause of t o ‘The bladder was created for one pur-| impertect action of} Condensed War Opinions Unlertakers cors der the situation grave Lawyers insist that we should up hold the honor of the land of the | ~ free Biuks are willing to accept bills of indemnity. The standing army should be sat on. Citizens of seabvard cities say we should strengthen our coast pre- teps-s thinks Spain Carpenters are anxious to nail the flig to the mast. Plumbers are content with piping times of peace. A majority of the clergy is in fav- or of the United States taking upa collection. Local astronomers say we will make Spain see stars. The Signal Service Bureau is anx- ious to furnish war clouds.—Atlanta Constitution. FOUR KILLED IN RACE WAR. Negro and White Wife Die First. Wichita, Kan, March 21.— Negroes in and around Wybark, I. T. are in armsover the murder of Ed Chalmers, a negro, and his white wife. A special from there tonight says that the second white man was killed this afternoon. Chalmers, who was anegro about 30 years cld, recently married a white woman named Alica Headly, in a small town in Southera Iowa, but had to leave there on account of public sentiment. He wandered around for two or tbree months and wes finally induced by relatives to locate at Wy bark, a little town about nine miles north of Muscogee, I. T. Sunday night, in lees than twelve hours after Chalmers and his wife ariived in Wybark, a mob of masked mn, without any warning, broke into their rooms and shot them both CHALMERS’ WIFE KILLED FIRST first round of shots, raised in bed and returned the fire, killing one of the mob instantly. Mathews, who lived at Gibson's left side. of being connected with the mob the negro race avenge. and dispatches | is not over. SIX ARRESTS ARE MADE. ports reached the United State | marshal’s office late this evening tha | Marshal Bennett had caused the ar jrest of G. W. Gains, station agen | son Station, and W. A. Lamon, ; merchant at that place, and fou jan, by a mob. Great excitemen which are mostly negroes. Th cause of the killing was the birth o |}a baby at the Chalmers’ home. | prisoners were taken to Wagone | | States commissioner there. A Narrow Escape. | | or beer, ne sant get ht io urinate. ary effect ot Dr Ki | and overco ty of bein times during the soon realized. 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Chalmers’ wife was killed at the but Chalmers Chalmers was then dragged out of bed onto the floor by a lasso thrown around his head, and four bullets were sent into his back, resulting in his death. The body of Stanley Station, three miles from Wybark, was found with two bullets in the Nearly forty negroes are carrying weapons and threatening several citizens whom they suspect They say thatif Chalmers had been warned he would have left town and that his murder was a crime agairst which they will There is great excitement in the country for ten miles about Wybark indicate that the whites fear the worst of the trouble | lof the M, K. and 'T. railway, at Gib | section men in the employ of the M. K. and T. railway, for being impli-| cated in the killing of Ed Chamlers, |a negro, and his wife, a white wom- | prevails in Wybark, the residents of The for examination before the United determined if I My husband was advised to | tive It has cured me, and thank | off of the mill, too rainy for | Preachers’ Meeting ; . Tobe held at Garden City, Mo., arch 2th and 29th. : MONDAY EVE. Devotional, Dr. B. Dawson. Sermon, L. H. Otto. TUESDAY A. M. 9:30—Devotional, C. W. West. 0—Tei porary organization. —Our condition, G. L, Bush. , led by J. L. Jones. H }, Monroe. TUESDAY P. M. 2:00—Devotional. W. A. Fite. —election of officers, Symposum—Our district What? ©. A. Ishmel, 5—How? T. A. Abbott, — Where? G. W. Terrell. 3:35—Discussion, led by R. R. Coffey. | 4:00— Bible work, H. F. Davi | 7:30—Devotiona . K. Spear. j 8:00—Sermon, A. C. McKeever. | “Lee For President.”” | Newport, R. I, Mareh 19.—At a! performance given last night by a | variety eompany,Miss Alice Willard. | |one of the young women of the or-} | ganization, walked across the stage | bearing @ banner upon which was) | painted a picture of Gen. Lee and| the words “Our Next President— | Fitzhugh Lee, a True American.” | The appearence of the young lady | and her banver provoked the greatest applause | Pleasant Gap Ltems George Bassett and son Dexter, have gone to Cedar county after cat- tle. Lute Wix has moved home on the George Jobe pla Frank Walters, formerly place, but now of Denver, Colo., visiting friends and relatives in this} vicinity, | to is this week. | The people are requested to meet at the Scifres school house the 4th} Sunday in March to organize a Sun- day school. Henry Nafus was husking shock fodder Wednesday. On account of the bad weather and the time of the year the literary at Scifers closed Thursday night till some future time. The township examination of the public school at the Double Branch school house Saturday, March 26, 1898. A fee of 25c to defray expenses will be charged each applicant. ER Hall called in a few of neighbors Wednesday to help move his old log house. Henry Nafus sold his calves last week at $20 a head. C F Beard purchased a horse at Mr Requa’s sale Thursday. Perry Nafus is keeping bachelor’s hall this year in the Jim Scifers house. Perry, it looks like there are too many old maids in this country for that. Mark Spain and A M Earsom took a flying trip to Rich Hill last Sunday. The school board at Double Braneh had a special meeting Monday night, | did not iearn particulars as to what they did. Mrs Charley Kisneris able to be out again. his} his re- Grandma Smith is suffering from la grippe. Osear Favel of Burbon_ county, z friends in this vicin- GESIKA, Kan, is vis ity. Ballard Breezes. Andy Ray and son of Shawnee, caine down after clover seed. JN Earsom is farming part of the|s 1 land six miles northeast of | exsrs Hallare sawing agail a leovered him with Winchesters and NO19 PPPOE OOOO COPE cS Comparative Statement showing heavy increase in 4 business of FARMERS BANK. for past twe vears. Each three months. Passaic items have t f past two weeks rather g! ty rain, mereury r 1 pwn as low as 28 j above zero and as high as 70 ab | Plenty of rain will bring plenty of 4 grass, it will be good for the farmer § x in the course of time. Oats are be- ff CONSOLIDATED ginning to peep out of the ground i j wet eve most of t husbandmen : IELD FENCING are 1g »wit pats and s { F t | for this season. i ls made in 16 different styles and is We see a great deal of fence be | , | t 6 It and repaired t! guaranteed te tura ail hinds of stoch. pinta atr ures Gaisanicen wie: | on Coe) Aeeene ee oe GE the Test Dacacmec steel, | DSC DoEnood, tt gees: to snow thet used In its construction. there ts some thrift. Our two big rains were only one A FENCE eS KEEPS | week apart the biggest we have had sicciasiiond in years. If we can have one or two in July and August we will haye plenty of corn, and corn is king. The elm d maple and wild cherry soon n m and the bee Crimp and Jotnt. will begin nu his store for sum- |mer and winter use. A great wany { r stay w of our neighbors have made their ut of place. | o gardens. Mr Crews examined his potatoes that he had planted and found they had rotted inthe ground, Mr Fritze, proprietor of the Hukel MAnurActuReD BY Consolidated Stee! and Wire Co., Chicago. Bennett-Wheeler Merc. Co. BUTLER, MISSOURL. very out good lumber. His | 1 son is his engineer. Mrs Catherine Williams and | Rerson, are having } to the mill. Geo Wallis is buying paving a good price for them. J W Crews has been y little turning 13-year saw mill is kep sop cut and sent BANK’S VAULT BLOWN OPI calves; he is Robbers Get Away With 86,000 Inj Nickerson, Kan. remodeling a Hutchison, Kan. March 20.—| house for Mr Henderson the past Robbers blew open the safe of the | week. State bank of Nickersonearly this) The roads are lined with candi dates in the pasi few days; we hope they will form a good opinion of our It will be impossible to ¢ morning avd got away with between | $5,000 and $6,000. The vault and) safes gave the crackemen a great deal of trouble and four charges of | county. ve all of them an office, A few of our estimable ladies of the powder were used. It was after 5 immediate neighborhood gave Mrs o'clock before the job wa3 finished. | Amelia Johns a birthday surprise. They all arrived about 10 o'clock The noise of the explosion arous- ed F. H. Werries, who lives near the bank, but two of the robbers who remained on guard in the street and before she was aware of their presence, were seated in the sitting- room. She remarked to her daugh- ter, Mrs Williams, that she though she heard Mrs Barnett’s and voice, she would goin and see her, and on opening the door found a full of friends. Then she realized what was up. It was not long before they were seated at the ta which fairly kept him from giving the slarm. Meantime their comrades inside the bank worked away with redoubled energy- m A number are breaking young mules and horses for the spring work. Beli Bros have a span of large mules fer sale. Good property in Butler and Bal- lard for sale. Call on or address Dr McFarland. Dr Jno Crabtree called as he was passing for the northwest. He isin 8 t t corder to a finish. Quite a number had their wood corded too near the creek, hence the heavy rains washed itaway, Ed Young, our sinith, will do your work right, and as reasonable as any ss workinan. Mrs Arbuckle and daughter were over trading with Price Bros Satur- day. Township board met at Johnstown Saturday. MeClenney was out Monday gett hands to put in the culvert one south of here. J C Nobile, our p. m. has the ber on the ground and will building soon. Jas Whitsitt of Butler will do the work. Perry Ray has movedint hip, on the farm adjoining his a r stove t e f r o Shawnee trou- 1 i « | towns Besa Soo neE ia fi Perel Thankful words written by Mrz. | father’s. | wish in quickly curing bladder and usi-| Ada E. Hart, of Groton, S. D. “Was| A boy at P J Hermann’s the 13th | Rary troubles. It corrects frequent calls, | taken with a bad cold which settled me I epee ee a | inability to hold ur t iding orion my lungs: cough set in and final-| borg aoe rt 1 Sth. All sting n in passing it, or bad effects} jy aa = = = ER | ‘ s aa : f S ne cts ly terminated in consumption. Four| 4 number met at C K d | Crows where they made a liv f | racket until he set up the cigars and jeandy, when they quie departed wishing him a long and prosperous life. W S Ray and f in Batlerand Jesse Price visited re | of here Saturday and Sunday. Henry Kiersey has gone to Colo Jess Spearman had to come down sa | = £- ning Elmer Huff came down an last week. R M Alexander is able to be out. Geo Evans went to Polk county to Guaranteed | visit relatives, his sister, Mrs Jennie Wainscott being very sick. Part. the field for Hon J W Choate for Re- . | Kinley, out cf 7,758. We had one thithird of the votes c in Bates county, and this year we will have | bank, says the robbers got $1,500 in gold, $500 in silver and between = f . id In blowing the cafe considerable groaned under its weight of good | paper money was blown isto bits | things, and to which one and all did } land left on the floor of the vault, ample justice. Mrs Johns was 7% « | but L. C. Brown, president of the years She was born anc ed f var hie imaic | | elia R Am yand came $3,000 and $4,000 in bills. The She has been it | los fully covered by burgular } | insurance. j The robbers made a clean escape | and no clue can be found. | Bucklen’s Arnic: | The Best Salve in the world for a, Mesdames W Jobn Wright, faddy,Mrs« IL grandchildren, Mis | cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt hns and Reason | rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped nded church § | hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin | (TT ipeeent nid pone ae | eruptions, and positively cures piles Wis cveady Gaus back fan or no pay required. It is guaran-| Kansas last week. He said he would | teed to give perfect satisfaction or | not live in Kansas, too | money refunded. Price 25 cente | He has gened | per box. For sale by H L. Wackees| oo ean aoaes | Fer @ Straight Ticket. todo ) on to | you ca 1k down Rieh Hill Tri People are beginning to ask us “if the republican party is going to do | anything in Bates county this year” | We always reply in the affirmative The party will put a strong ticket lin the field, perfect its organization, and make a gallant fight for its prin ciples. Wemay not win but we have a fighting ehow. Bates county republicans eset 2,522 votes for Mc ane. | Royal makes the food pure, wholesome and delicious. . There willbe no fusion be te and more. tween democrats and popul |if these parties should break about | even, the fight would be close with | | the chances favoring the republicans. | The outlook is not bad.