The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 5, 1898, Page 5

MARKET REPORTS. Kansas City Live Stock. 4s CITY, May 3.—Cattle—Receipte, 61; shipped yesterd: 1,916 catti ag The market was steady to 102 lor - wpe following > representative sales smiPPING AND DKESSED BEEF STEERS ‘Ave. Price |No. Sted! 1,450 $5.00 | 20 1. 206 21,270 400 WESTERN 5 NATIVE HEIPE! 93) 465 | 1 644 450 | 3 > 610 4.59 | 16 ATIVE COWS. NATIVE 8TOC 18. w+ 632 85.00 | 11 Hoge Receipts, 17,498; shipped yesterday, 4007. The market opened steady to 5c lower tad closed firm at yesterday's prices. The fol- s tative sales: Sheep—Receipts, 2,030; yesterday, #2 The market was weak to l5c lower. The following are representative sales: bs... 55 $6.50 | 26spg. Ibs... 49 £ 2 5.00 2 65 By 11 37 belp. ew... 275 | Horses and mules—The common grades of horses are slow while the best grades are ac- tive at top prices quoted in the ge of sales. fit for army purposes sell readily. Prices are practically the same as last week. The receipts are accu- mulating as so many of the arrivals are re- jected by the government inspectors. These seemingly have no other outlet at present. St. Louis Live Stock. Sr. Louis, May 3.—Cattle—Receipts, 2,590; market steady to firm; native shipping steers, 4.35@5.25; dressed beef and light steers, #2 90@ 475; stockers and feeders, #8.50@4.50; cows and heifers, #2.00@4.50; Texas and Indian steers, $3.40@4.00; cows and heifers, #2.25@3.75. Hogs—Receips, 6,500; market 5c lower; york- ers, #2802390; packers, #370%390; butchers, 1290405. Sheep—Receipts, 709; market strong; nae tive muttons, #100@4.05; lambs, £4.50@8.00. Chicago Live Stock. CHIcaGo, May %3—Cattle—Receipts, 2,500 market steady; beeves, #3.90@5.20; cows and 2 Texas steers, €3.75@440; |, #3. TOGA 75. Hogs—Receipts, 22,000; market active at yes- terday’s average; light, #3.85@4.05; mixed, $8.90@4.12%; heavy, 83.90G4.12%4; rough, 83.90@ 400. Sheep—Receipts, 16,000; market steady, lambs Strong; native, #3.20Q4.50; western, $%75@4.40; lambs, $3.75@5.50, Chicago Grain and Provisions. May 3 Opened| High’ epawise leickiig Wh’'t—May....| 117%) 121%) 117% 121 July. 92%| 943%) O24! 15K Sept 67% Kansas City Grain. Kansas City, May 3.—Wheat— Recetpts here to-day were 94 cars; a week ago, 50 cars; Ayearago, 20cars. Sales by sample on track: Hard, No. 1, 81.05; No. hard $1 02@1.04%: No. 3 hard, 1.01%4@1.03; No. 4 hard, 99ce@ %1.00; rejected hard, nominally 96%98e. Soft, $1.06; No. 2 8 red, #1.00@1.02 » 4 red, 98 jected red, nominally 962980. Spring 91.00; No. 8 spring, 95c@#1.00; rejected spring, 57 ago, 163cars. Sa : xed, No. 2, 31% @32%40; No. 3 mixed, 32@32%4c; No. 4 mixed, nominally Sic. White, No. 2, 3243@324%c: No. 3 white, 823gc; No. 4 white, nominally 3ic. Oats—Receipts here to-d: were 13 cars; @ week ago, 17 cars; a year ag sample on track; Mixed No. 8 mixed, S24%4@3%c. White, D white, nominally 32c. Rye—No. 2, nominally 570; No 3, nominally Séc; No. 4, nominally 54c. Hay—Receipts here to-day were 16 cars; a week ago, 18 cars; a go, 23 cars. Quota- tions are: Choice prairie, &9. No. 1, $9.25; No 2, $8.75@9.00; No. 3 #8.002 choice timothy, $10.75@11.00; No. 1, &1 No. 2, #925@9.50; choice clover and timothy, No. 1, #9.00@9.23; No. 2, #8. 00@8.25; pure clover, #8.0X@825; packe ing, $7.50. SIMBS2GKo . 3, B344c; No. 4 Kansas City Prodace. Kansas City, May 3—Butter—Extra fancy Separator, firsts, 13%e: dairy, N@14e; country roll, llc; extra fancy, 130; store packed, Ne; fresh packing stock, 8310c. Eges—Strictly fresh, 9¢ per dozen. Hons, 640; broilers 15¢ each; duc 8c; young toms, 7¢: Pigeons, 75c per dozen. Apples—Fancy Missouri Pippin, 23. fancy Ben Davis, €8.00@325; choice $2.73@3.00; Winesaps, $3.50@4 0); Wille $8.50G4.00. In a small way varieties are sellin, at 40@65e per half bu. Vegetables—Cabbage, $2.00 per 109-1b crate Beets, 25@400e per bu. Green and v as #2502200 per crate; navy beans, hand picked, 01.50 per bu Onions, $5eQ#.50. Lettuce, home grown, $1.00 per bu. Spinach, home grown. 4) 3c per bu. Potatoes—New, Texas, #1.50@2 0) per bu ; old northern stock, fancy, sacked, Burbanks, 70@ be To; choice to fancy mixed, bulk, 60@65se; Min- nesota and Dakota, bulk, 65@70c: Colorado Stock, fancy, sacked, 73¢ grown, sacked, 4050c. Sweet pot Potatoes, northern grown, Rose, 750; Early Ohio, 75c; Red river stock, A Flood on a Kansas River. Eureka, Kan., May 3.—Fall river Sunday rose 4'g feet higher than has been known in 40 years. It was two miles wide above town. Farm houses a half mile from the stream, which had never before been approached by water, were flooded to the depth of several feet. Itisestimated that 590 cattle and several thousand hogs were drowned. The crops are entirely de stroyed on all the bottom farms. The comptroller of the currency has declared a final dividend of four per cent. in favor of the creditors of the First national bank of Downs, Kan, making in all 79 per cent. on claims proved amounting to $36,156 beet MISSOURI PUBLIC SCHOOLS. | State Superintendent Kirk Issues His An- | nual Report—Protest Against the Elec- tion of Partisan School Boards. JEPFERSON CrTy, 3.—The annual report of the state superin- tendent of public schools for 1897 is just out. Fromit the following sta- tistics are gleaned: Missouri has If ued at 216,718.41 public schoolhouse n enumeration of 97 children of schoo} age and a total enrollr the public schools of the state of 673,152 dren. The total expenditure of the last year amounted to 8,992,336, with cash on hand at the beginning of the current school year amounting to #1,674935. The permanent interest-bearing School fund of the state is now 2,273,121 There are 15,00) public school-teachers of th state, dr gan average salary of #49 per mimonths in the year. The in- h school enrollment is considered to be somewhat remarkable. It approximates 20,000. while less than four years ago it was Superintendent Kirk protests against parti- sanship and commercialism in the election of school boards, claiming that the common method of electing school directors is one of the greatest obstacles encountered in public school education. He assails vigorously the selection of teachers because of church relationship and political aMfiliation, and says: ‘‘Especially un- wise and harmful is the practice of employ- ing teachers who are related to members of the school board by blood or marriage,” He enters a strong plea for more scholarly super-! intendents and principals of the public schools, declaring that a good many middle-aged super- intendents and principals are now compelled to plan for their high school courses of instruc- tion more advanced than they themselves have taken. PUBLIC DEBT INCREASED. War Necessities Bring the Sum of Our Na- tional Obligations Up Several Mil- Mons—Cash In the Treasury. WASHINGTON, May 3.—The monthly statement of the public debt shows these facts: At the close of business April 3), 1898, the debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to #1,018,432, an increase for the month of €9,- 716,301. The increase in the debt is accounted for by a corresponding decrease in the cash on hand and the decrease is due to war expenses. ‘The debt is recapitulated as follows: Interest bearing debt, #817,367,010; debt on which inter- est has ceased since maturity, $1,280,630; debt bearing no interest, #33. 531 otal, #1,234,- 243,274. This amount, howe’ does not include 2561,306,933 in certificates and treasury notes outstanding, offset by an equal amount of cash on hand. The cash in the treasury is recapitu- lated as follows: Gold, #217,190, 3 silv $512,894,282; paper, #70,526, 048; » disbu ing office eS, ete., $30,507 5. Total, $831, 117,8¢ nst which there are outstand- ing demand nounting to 1615,307,249, leaving the net cash balance in the treasury, #215, 810,6 / NO INTERVENTION NOW. Great Disparity of Views Among the Six Powers Is Enough to Prevent Any Concerted Action. Lonpon, May The Vienna corre- spondent of the Times says: In well-informed circles it is positively de- nied that the powers will intervene at the pres- ent juncture, nor has any agreement been ar- rived at for mediation at any future time. The disparity of views is considerable enough to render highly improbable the co-operation of all six powers in any diplomatic step, either at Madrid or Washington. Hurricane at Jerico, Mo. GREENFIELD, Mo., May 3.—The city of Jerico was visited by a severe hurri- cane late Sunday night and much dam- age was done. There was not a build- ing in the storm-swept district but what was tested, and many of them were scattered to the earth. The list of the dead and the injured cannot yet be given, as the wires are down and no message can be sent between Stockton and the stricken village. Dewey Has Plenty of Ammanition. WasuHINGTON, May 3.—Naval bureau chiefs, who have charge of equipping the fleets with ammunition and coal, say that Commodore Dewey’s engage- ment of Sunday does not deplete his stock of projectiles, powder, coal and other necessary supplies to any serious extent, and that he has ample supplies of this vital character to carry on such further operations as may be neces- sary. Kennedy May Go Free Again. Kansas Crry, Mo., May 3.—Jack Kennedy will not be prosecuted on the charge of murdering Miss Emma Schumacher. Prosecuting Attorney Lowe offered yesterday to allow Ken- nedy to be released on a bond of $1,000. This can have but one meaning and thatis that the prosecutor has been induced to abandon the prosecution of Kennedy for murder. The Pope Prostrated. Rome, May 3.—The pope is prostrated by the news from Manila. He ex- pressed horror at the terrible loss of life and said he wished he had died be- fore seeing such awar. Both the pope and Cardinal Rampolla, papal secre- tary of state, have refused to consider any interference, declaring that the attitude of the Vatican is one of strict neutrality. Several Killed in a Texas Cyclone. CANADIAN, Tex., May 3.—The town of Mobeetie, Tex., was almost totally destroyed by a tornado Sunday morn- ing. John Stocker, Mrs. R. W. Wright, Mrs. Rufus Kitchen and Baby Matter son were killed. Mrs. Exum, Baby Plamer and Mrs. Anderson were fatally injured. Fifteen were painfully hurt. All county buildings were wrecked. Property loss, $35,000. Will Be Held in State Encampments. WasntneTon, May 2. —An official high in the war department said that the volunteers called for will be held in their state encampments indefinitely, to be organized and hardened. It was intimated in the same quarter that the volunteers might not get a chance at Cuba until after the rainy season, if at all Western Postmasters Named. WasutNeton, May 3.—President Me- Kinley sent the following nominations of postmasters to the senate: Kansas —James H. Titus, Medicine Lodge; W. H. Mackey, Jr., Junction City; William Smith, Galena; Joseph Craft, Chetopa. Missouri—Eugene S. Low, Hamilton. Gen. Charles C. Waleutt, of Colum- bus, O., who was the youngest of the major generals during the war, died in a hospital at Omaha, Neb., from gan- grene in the leg, the outcome of a wound received in the war. NN planting their corn. tune to lose one of his fine milch} cows one night last week by getting mired in deep mud. Sunday with Commie Coleman. urday eve and instead of catching fish as he intended he ducking. services at the Methodist church last Sunday. to lose his fine buggy hi rse on last Saturday night. day on business. Johnstown visiting with his parents. Before ; Buying Wall Paper, y Be sure and exam- ine Ludwicks stock He has tre best selected ock in town. Pri +s guar- § | anteed th lowest for the value. J. F. LUDWICK. : — Most of the farmers have finished | Henry Morehead had the misfor- Willie Shelton spent Saturday and O Y Jackson went fishing last Sat- vught a good Kirk Green and best viri attended Henry Zimmers had t!)+ misfortune SW Gilliland says if people don’t believe he isa man and a voter just look at his mustache. IM ith of Deepwater township, one of our well known citizens and farmer says 1 ing. Eldredge Kash went to Butler Fri- who isrunning for recorder, s prespects are very flatter- Mr Carlton and wife oi Mayesburg, visited WoL Kash and family last week. Mrs Vada Vanaulstin. of Kansas City, is visiting her mother, Mrs Jno Thompson, near Jobo stown this week. Died, on last Tuesday at his home near Johnstown, John Thompson, aftera protracted illness. Funeral services were at the Johnstown ME church conducted by Elder Clap, and the remains were laid to rest in the Ballard cemetery. Mrs Annie Howard of Johnstown, went to Butler on business. H O Maxey, one of the many can- didates for recorder, spent Sunday in Some of our SS teachers were late Sunday to take charg: of their classes. Owing to the appea ce of rain Sunday night there wa ot a very geod turn out at chure! 8S W Gilliland, teacher the young ladies class in the Jo! stown SS says he is well pleased with the in- terest that is taken by al! his pupils. The third quarterly meeting for the Johnstown circuit will be held at Passaic the 14th and 15th of May. Preaching at lla, m. Saturday and at night also. Rev Auld was making calls on some of his members here Monday before returning to his home at But- ler. ROSE. Ballard Breezes. The mill and blacksmith was well patronized last Saturday. Bell Bros are farming a part of the Cole land. Jas Wood rented his stump land to Poindexters and he will farm a part of the Cole land. F M Fort and son sold three mules) and J H Hillone to a mule buyer} from Clinton. Guess they will go with our boys to Cuba. M Price returned all (). K. from Kansas City, where he bought a bill of dry goods, hardware and straw hats. Marion Woods of Adr.an, bought the Fort hogs. More rain—more grass. We havea clean house once more, | and our office in shape for consulta- tion. Jesse Wells has really cone to hard | work. Camerons finished sawing the frame for Winegardner’s barn last} Saturday, and he wiil commence! work on it at once. j T Hendrickson was over after) Spearman meal Friday. | Floyd Patrick and J J Convoy was on hands Saturday evening for some) thing toeat. Butler flour has jamp-; ed up; why not get Balle :d’s best—it would be all right wi plenty of | good milk. Remember the convetion Satur-| day 2 p. m. at Entervrise school house, be sure to come. Spearman will sharpe: your plows | nection wit and guarantee satisfaciion, so he! the south says; try bim. | Guess prosperity has struck us, as_ everything we buy has gone up, flour, sugar, coffee, beans, ai AT. VASION OF and Gen. he Time Is Not Opportune nd Troops to Cuba. MORE PRIZES CAUGHT BY OUR FLEET. | sh Steamer Argonauta an Im- portant Capture—Mail Matter on Board from the Spanksh Government to Capt. | lanco—The United States Alding | Cubans to Join Gomez's Forces. —An important g the Cuban « able part of | ations occupied a consic Secretaries les talked} nd the gene Wednesday, urged that jing timber, and bo! than if it w uyed until the st will die. almost entirely destroyed. The In short, tl | plain in dec tary was ve opinion that the thi | dashed to the ground |general merchandise scattered for S not opportune »ps to Cuba. More Pr z2s € brought in this morn gon board ac Ze, the two-maste for Havana. cause the li she was to States cruiser M heave to and rblehead, Comr big Spanish ter from the tended for ¢ xtended author e expeditions of Cubans in this coun- government its assistance junta as to furnish money to defray the fare of the Cubans who want to go Tampa, from will be furnish to carry th Senors Quesada and after the conference country to take the BASEBALL GAMES. tional League (LTT ee ‘CYCLONES STRIKE CITIES. |« water recedes. The Santa Fe track is washed out both north and south of here Storms Swoop Down on the, Scuth Greenfield, Mo. May 1— The city of W irov rm, 2 Southwest and Northwest. iles east of coarans casa hurricane late this afternoon. Nearly Duncan, 1. T., Was Almost Wiped Off all the eastern portion of the city Map.—Walnut Greve, in Southwest Mis-| 7&8 blown away. One woman was killed and one woman badly injured. | It isa difficult matter to get news |from Walnut Grove on account of Perry, Ok, May 1 —At 11 o'clock the wires being down. The extent last night Duncan, I. T, a town of /f the storm is not known and the souri, Badly Wrecked.—Nerthwestern lawa Towns Twisted and Blown Away. | 1500 people, just over the Oklaboma| amount of damage can not be told. line, and located on the Rock Island| Alton, Tl, May 1,—At 3 o’cloek Railroad, was struck by a terrible| this afterneon e terrific storm of eyclone, which came near wiping the| 0d and rain broke over the city. whole town out of existence The| Pbe storm came from the southwest news was breught bere this evening #24 for fifteen minutes blew a burri- by a gentleman who was in Duncan —_ Tin roofs of business houses t the time, and he says that every| re rolled up and taken off, tele- ; | house in town was either blown grapb poles and wire blockaded the down or badly wrecked. Only one street, and numerous signs and death is reported, and that was a|®Woings were smashed. little cbild of Herman Jones, which| Mason City, Io, May 1.—A devas. was killed outright, and twenty or tating cyclone swept over Northwest more people arehhart “Ravers! ‘per- Iowa last night. The worst destrue- }gons are miseiog, and it is thought tion is reported pear Archer, in they are buried in the debrie. John|0Briem county. Primghar, Hartiey |Manving and wife were hit by fly- acd Curlew, it is stated, are badly wrecked. Hartley is said to be 1, it is reported, Large brick and stone buildings wires were blown down. Several id stacks of | 8" reported killed and the property damage is great. maany miles. More horror was added Missourians With Dewey- to the destruction when the heaps of Sedalia, Mo, May 1.—Sedalia is wooden buildings took fire. Many especially interested in the move persors were pinned under tbe| ments of the United States fleet in j heaps, and their cries for help were/ the vicinity of Manilla. Cadet Harry ; |beartrending. Word was sent to : C. Tindall, on Commodore Dewey's neighboring towns for assistance to/ flagship, the Olympia, is a nephew rescue the people, and all day to-day | of W. L. Bass, a passenger conduc- jpeople have been rescuing those} tor on the Sedalia, Warsaw & South- under the buildings. The telegraph | erp Yeung Tindall will be 21 years wires are flat, and communication | old next week. After three years at with Duncan is hard te get. The Annapolis he was ordered to join informant says several people @ré| the ill fated Maine, but that veasel known to be absent and it is thought | was destroyed in Havana barbor b they will be found under the heaps|fore be could report to Captain of brick and stone. Sigabee. Tindall and his classmates The approgch of the funnel shaped | were then sent to join the Asiatic cloud was made known by tke ring- Squadron. Charles T. Gorrell, of ing of bells and pistol ehote, and | Sedalia, is a marine on the Anpapo- hundreds of peeple escaped to caves lis. In a letter to his brother, Clay and other places of safety. Had it] Gorrell, received yesterday, the not been for this many more would] marine writes: “I am going to rep have met death. resent Sedalia, and you can rest as- The first discovery of the ap-|sured I will do noting to blemish proaching disaster was made by the| her fair name; if I go down I know I lonely night watch, while patrolling | will die fighting for a righteous tne streets, Lut the cyclone swooped | cause.” down upon the little tewn before a geceral alarm could be given. The cyclone came from the south- west and passed direct to the north between Guthrie and Oklahoma City, but nothing is known here of the extent of damage done beyond Duncan. The storm lasted ten minutes. While the terrified inhabitants were rescuing the unfortunate ones a second cyc’one came from the ‘Yewus Burned by Blanco. Key West, Fila, May 1.—It is un- officially stated by Cubans to night that Blanco is burning the interior towns in the island of Cubs, and it is believed that the truth of the statement is established by the great volumes of smoke which were ne- ticed rising from the interior of the island yesterday. These fires were noticed between r Matanzas and Havana by persons on northwest, but was of less violence.| tie Agsociated press dispatch boat Several buildings which escaped the} nguntless and throughout the night first blow were leveled to the ground. | in, bright glow of fires was reflected The property damage will foot up| og the sky. In places fierce forest mavy thousands fires were burning. Duncan is on the Rock Island Railway, and wasa thrifty territory | 4" Iateresting Marder Case Ended at town, but to-day little is left of the Warsaw. place, and reports received here indi Warsaw, Mo, April 28.—The Nor- cate deselation and ruin. man brothers arrested and tried for Sapulpe, I. T., May 1—A cyclone} the murder of Creed Moore were ac- struck this town to-day at 9 a. m.,|quitted by the jury this morning. | resulting in considerable damage to| Moore and the Norman brothers Spanish Sympathizer Punish * ling, just as the storm twisted it States a thr: diers heard Mosby's Services to Re Availed O7. 's,| pour until noon. The high water of} toa telegram volunte the effect that the comman | had eady recommended h le to Manila Cot. y §.—Tests from Hong ne cable was cut 50 miles | A week ora fortnight [one will be no more trains unti!|delphia Times. may elapse before it can be repaired. property and the injury of several | had a quarrel over a piece of land. | people. Mrs. R Taylor and two} One day during the month of Oct. | babies have been removed from the|last, while Moore was passing the lruins of their demolished house|bome of Emery Norman, the latter | dangerously but, it is thought, not opened a window and fired, killing |fatally bert. The residence of | Moore instantly. |Rebert Howell, a merchant, was| Ex-Mayor Hastain, of Sedalia, de- turned upside down, while the family | fended the Norman brothers in this were ali inside, but all escaped in-| case. jury. Rev. Mr. Ray and family, | residing in the Methodist psreonage, | narrowly escaped from their dwe!l Czar Refases to Mediate. London, May 1.—The Berlin core respondent of the Sunday Special asserts that the queen regent has appealed to the czar, through Em- peror Francis Joseph of Austria, to assist her in her conflict with the United States. Emperor Nicholas replied directly to the queen regent, ageuring her ef his deepest sympathy with Spaic, ea which country the United States bad forced war, saying, however, that be does not consider matters yet ripe for Russian diplo- matie er military intervention, but \from its foundation. Other dwell- lings and storehouses were more or | less injured, and the town is flooded |as a reeult of acloud burst. Sapulpa jis witbin three miles of the path of | the cyclone that swept away Chand- | ler, Oxla., a year ago. E!Dorade, Kan, May 1 —It com- | menced raining here at 9 o'clock last | night and kept up a steady down- ‘ithe day before had not entirely | at he will do whatever is ible lreceded, and the Walnut rose over . time. 199 feet to day, andis several miles |** es cops in| wide in places. Only two trains| Spain's preference for mules as lartived here today, both on the|army adjuncts is significact. When Missouri Pacific. but the track is|this anima! gets mad acd is disposed washed out bere oa that line and | to fight it takes to its hce's.—Phila-