The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 14, 1898, Page 2

600 DROWNED. _si A Transient Steamer Sonk in a Colli- sion Off the American Const at Cepe Sabie. KANSAS CITYANS LOST - John Perry, Her Four Children and | Miss McFarland Ameng Those Drowned Monday Morning. Mrs Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 6.—The British Iron ship Cromartyshire was harbor neck is but 900 feet wide and the chip chann The TIMELY WAR CUTS NO.-4~48 SPECIAL FEATURE, 1898 SANTIAGO'S NARROW CHANNEL AND ITS HIGH HILLS. 21 but 100 feet, owing to ¢ | rbstruc | the splendid fete he gave in conjun | titla de! | splendid entertainments ever held in yard, for the ¥F Captured Spaniards Portsmouth, N. H, Jaly 64, rangemente were made to day ty of King Capt Crownissbield for the immedj in the ate erection of eight prison buildings Island, Don Mathias de Man Spavish Minieter, tion with Serco los Rios, ai to celebrate the coming Alfonso XII totn+ throne winter of 1875, was one of the most on Seavey's bear the havy dation of the Washington. President Grant, bis h captive Corvern's flee entire cabinet aud every 1 It will not be the first time that of consequence + Was presen Many | prisoners of war have been eon fined naval officers »willhike here. During the civil war some 400 te spend scr bis paroled Southerners w rartered in one time here, if h wed to do 80.! of the old shi es at the navy | LORD ROSEBERRY ADVOCATES yard. The b to be erected 3 AN ALLIANCE will be temporary affairs, and will be oe ne completed by the time the Spaviards Lo towed in here this morning by the pee \llan liner Grecian. Her bow was as oe cary 2 ae eae riven at Colo I torn away by a collision, eixty miles | sistance Shortly afterward the | tia hides were sent to schoo! with |APMIRAL CERVERA ESTEEWED, |8 - sata Tried F rien Best. 4 ae aes 2 ig hight on “Tne English? eee ) south of sable island, with the|steamer bore down toward us. | Miss Barstow at twelfth and Wash-| = 2 —— 2: arene ; Forthirty vears Tutt's I French transatlantic steamer La She mere dto be the Grecian, | ington streets, end were there pre-| His Course Toward Hobson Has Won! i pm o% 1] rt : Cue if rs an Og Bourgogne The French vessel| bound from Glasgow to New York. | pared to enter college or a seminary tor Him American Good Will. ae Are truly the sic! a i x vas | saw fit. t Mies ‘poe a . } oe went down ten minutes later. The captain agreed to take the pas | as their parents A Wasbington. D. ¢ Of with the bot y ee n ect: Of the 831 passengers and crew/|sengers on board and also agreed to | Barstow's they were what are cs alled on board La Bourgonge, about 160|tow my sbip to Halifax. | “blue ribbon girls.’ They took were saved. One woman, Mrs. La WOMEN DRIVEN BACK. prizes in their atudies and were Casce, wife of A. D. La Casse of Halifax, July 6—Some of the spoken of as diligent students. Plainville, N. J., was caved by ber| scenes enacted on board La Bour | Three years ago it was determined ily, whicl The captain and other by the family to send the girls to with the gonge just after the collision were : : terrible to witness. Men fought for | Paris. ‘Bbeir mother aecompanied the boats Jike raving | them there, and while the girls were were forced back | in the French convent the mother nd trampled by | lived within a balf block from the men who made convent wali. After a year spent {at study and travel in various parts first object. On board were a large number 07 | cf France the mother and The girls the lower class of Italians and other | turned home busband. deck officers went ship The Cromartyshire laid to and picked up about 160 passengers and seamen who were rescued, trans- porting them tothe Grecian, which came along shortly afterward. KANSAS CITY PEOPLE LOST. down positio women boats maniac’ from the self-preservation the girls re were left Among the passengers aboard|/fereigners who in their fret zy | at the Sacred Heart convent, near the lost steamer were Mrs. Jobn|stopped at nothing that promised New York, and Mrs Perry came back to Kansas City. Last week the Perry, Miss Sadie Perry, Miss Flor- ence Perry, Miss Katherine Perry safety for themselves. In a boat wes a party | girls tiniehed their courses of work of forty and Albert Perry. women, but 39 great was the panic | at th» convent aud Mra Perry went All of these are from Kansas City| not a hand was raised to assist in‘ t? N-« York to join them Befo re —the family of John Perry of tbe|its launching. The occupants, so | !eavii-: Raneas City she told friends Keith & Perry Coal Co. near saved, were drowned like rats | 8he « «ul lbring the ¢ ae home at THE CROMARTYSHIRE'S LOG whn the p with an awful hissing | once She changed ber plans, how The log of the Cromartyshire,|sound went down So desperate | ever, nnd went on the ocean voyage was the situation that an Italian | that oa reeu ted fatally for her and signed by Captain Henderson is as follows: “On July 4th, at 5 a. denee fog; position of ship sixty miles south of Sable island, ship by wind | hil passenger drew bis knife and made | ber four children. athrust at ose who, like himeelf, | was endeavoring to reach the boats. | Immediately his action was imitated m., Every _— mere So. ets Cand al disco: z to the ta: on the port tack heading about W./in every direction Kuives were | ly on the kidneys, 4 ‘ : ° | N. W., though under reduced can-|fourished and used with ¢ff-ct., vas going about four or five knots) Women and children were driven | | per hour. Our fog horn was kept] pack to certain death at the point of going regularly every minute. weapons, the owners of which were | At that time I heard a steamer experts in their use. j at the annual reunion of the National whistle on our weather sido or port According to stories of survivors | Association of Conf-derate Veterans, Miscouri will be well represented beam, which seeme: to be nearing! womea were stabbed like so many |to be held in Atlanta, Ga, July 20, very fast. sheep | 21, 22 and 23. Msjor Gen. Robert We blew horn and were answered HIS ENTIRE FAMILY GONE McCulloch bas issucd a general order by steamer’s whistle, when allof a} The news of the sinking of the | ; to the different camps throughout sudden she loomed through the fog| Bourgogne, first made known in | the state, and the re pouses which ived by Adju tant Henry A. Newman a cruzhing blow to Mr. John Perry |indicate that there will bea larg-r of the firm of Keith & Perry, for on | delegation from Missouri than ever that ill fated ship were his wife and | before. four children. The disaster had Miss Anna M McGowan of Neva out and went to examine the dam- swept away his entire family! | da, Mo, has been appointed sponsor age. Ifound that our boats were} Mr. Perry was in his office in the|for the state, and Mre. Mildred completely cut off and our plates|Keith & Perry building when he | Standish of Jefferson City chaperon twisted first read the news of the disaster. | The waids of honor have not been Other ship disappeared through| He remained in his office only a | selected, but will be announcei by the fog. few minutes and thea went away, | Major General McCulloch soon after However, our ship was floating] not wishing to meet the scores of | they are choseu. Sliss McGowan is on ber collision bulk head eo there|friends that had already begun to/one of the most beautiful young seemed no immediate danger of her | arrive to ask if there could not be | women in the state. She is the. sinking. Weset to work immedi-|gome mistake. | daughter of Captain Robert J. Me ately to clear the wreckage and also} At noon Mr. Perry decided to go | Gowan, county clerk of Vernon ship our starboard anchor which| east, and at 1:15 o’clock he left on | county. Mrs Standish is the widow was hanging over the starboard bow| the Missouri Pacific railway for New | of Col. Standish, who eeryed on the | have since been ree on our port bow and crashed into us, going at a terrific speed. Our foretop mast and main top gallant mast came down, bringing witb it yards and everything attached. Immediately ordered the boats Kavsas City through an extra edi- tion of the Star at 10 a. m. came as General and in danger of punching holes in} York, accompanied by Mr. J.C. | staff of Gen. Parsons, and who was the bow. Sherwood, auditor of the Central | killed with his General by a band of THE LAST OF THE La BOURGONGE. Coal and Coke cempany. There | Mexicans. Ail who atteod the re- | union will be given an opportunity to stop over at Chickamauga Camp. —Republic. Beauty is Blood Deep. ets,-beauty satisfaction | The following beautiful thought 1s credited to Gov. Bob Taylor: “It isin the desert, where virtue trembles to tread, where hope falters aud where faith is crucified, the infi del dreams. To him all there is of heaveo ia bound by this little span of life; all there is of wisdom and intelligence in the human brain; all of mystery and infinite is fathomed by human reason, and all there is in virtue is measured by the relations of man and man. To bim all must end in the tongueless silence of the dreamless dust snd all that lies beyond the grave is a voiceless shore and a starless sky. To him there are no prints of deatbless feet in its echoless sand, nathrill of immortal music in its loses air. He has lost his God, and We heard a steamer blowing her|was in the Associated Press dis- whistle on coming back and we an-| patches just one faint—very faint— | swered with our fog horn. The|/ray of hope for Mr. Perry. It was | steamer then threw up a rooket and| that his boy, Albert, might be alive. | fired a shot. We also threw up/The dispatches told that only one} Gan piood means acto some rockets and fired some shots,| woman was sayed—and her meme: Ro aon but we neither saw nor heard any-| was given—but to the stricken fath- the ey es riving = impurities “from thing more of the steamer. er the one slender hope that possi bolle, biotenea: ila = Shortly after, or about 5:30, the] bly one of his loved oues might yet | for ten cent All druggists, fog lifted somewhat and we saw two| be safe was sufficient to justify bim | ae a beats pulling teward us with the|in getting nearer the seaboard. French flag flying. We signaled] Miss Sadie and Miss Flerence them to come alongside and found] were twins, 20 years of age. Thay that the steamer was the La Bour-| graduated only last week from the gonge from New York to Havre,| Sacred Heart conventat Manhattan | and that she had gone down. ville, N. Y, Mise Florence at the We laid to all day and received on|head of ber class and Miss Sadie board about 200 survivors fromj|ranking third. They had already | amongst the passengers and crew,|attended a convent in Paris and the reported to be in all about 600. Sev-| present trip was fer three months | eral of the passengers were on life/simply to finish their education. rafts without oars and I called for| Katherine was 4 yearsand Albert 11 volunteers from among my crew and/years. Florence and Sadie Perry the surviving French seamen to| were born in Joplin and , when not bring those rafts alongside the | yet out of short dresses were sent ships. | by their parents to the Sacred Heart Some of the passengers and sea | convent at St. Louis to begin their men from the sunken steamer as-|edusation. They stayed at the con- sisted us and we jettisone vent several years, until the death thirty-six tons of their eldest brother, John Perry, cargo from our! of forehold in order to lighten the ship. | jr., at Christian Brothers’ schoo! at like some fallen seraph At about 3 p.m. another steam er | St. Louis, caused Mrs. Perry to de- flying in arayless night, he gropes his way on flapping pinions, sear, ing for a light where darkn reign, for life where death is oe hove in s put up our signals ‘N. C.’ (Want as- ight, bound westward. We/sire strongly to have them near her. After coming back to Kansas City | i the Spanish pri miral Cervera is in rank, His mother was of the T the royal blood cf even though this honor would seem questiona much kindliness felt toward Admiral | Cervera by naval cfficers here who knew and that sickly | not only naval, laims to be of the Bourbons, proudly e in America There is and people Admiral Lieutenant Com attache to the| the fa‘len when he was a mander and naval Spanish legation a quarter of a cen-|} tury ego | Then he behaved deed to youcg Hobson, fleet captain to tell the American Admiral that the daring young fellow d he, very kindly in- sending his was safe, un Cervera, would see to it that Hobson was well treated Since then Admiral Cervera bas been the young prisoner's stanch friend) The navy department caused | $800 in gold, pay due Hobson, to} be sent bim through Admiral Cer | vera, and to this Judge Hobson, the constructor’s in ali $1200 fatber, added | It reach- young 3400. ed Hobson safely. from his home folks him, ed, and his own, wrote a good many, flag to the nearest commander of an maki banded were unope were ssnt bya American man of-war, all that was asked of Hobson being that he should not discuss naval or military questions, nor tell anything that re lated to the eondition cf Santiago that would be “I handed my letters unsealed to Admiral Cervera,” wrote Hobson to his mother, “and he bad the to read them, but he did not bowed, and sealed them up presence and gave m? some wax with which I sealed them, and stamped the wax with my ring.” Hobson wrote that when he got out he meant to present Cervera with ¢ither a sword or a fise chro nometer balance watch as a slight appreciation of bis kindness toa young officer who had no sort of claim upon the Spanish Admiral to whom he surrendered. MAY NOT GO TO SPAIN These are some of the things that make the treatment of the Spanish Admiral a matter of national inter- est. Itis balieved at the French Embacsy, which has charge of Spain's interests here, that it is pos- sible Cervera will not wish to be ex- changed at this moment. Things in Spaia are in a perilous condition and the monarchical party would not hesitate to try Cervers, as they are about to try Montojo, the Admiral at the Philippines, on the charge of high treason. To be ‘tried on such a charge now, with disappointment and fury at being made the butt of ail Europe on se- detrimental to Spain right He in my now, a | jsympathies that coincide with our Then the letters | and he} “We must be exid Lord | For hioushesd lache, dyspepsia toseberry. “to h our own,though : Roseberr; stile cata sour stomach .COnstipa: not necessarily by war, in the great; . : ‘ : : - tion and all kindred diseases, of the jing, Natur.| FUTT’S Liver PILLS AN ABSOLUTE CURE. T. W. LECC. struggle world which seems } ally we look upos the Uni nitedl States eb as seeking interests and having) y to draw a} own, but it 18 unnecssar For all repairs, or p forma! bond of allianes. | Sata: cece venes soln top. I sell the A Sure Thing for You > é ee . \Buggy Paint on Earth, We reset tires and DO NOT RUIN THE WHEELS, Will furnish y HIGH OR LOW GRADE kful to all whe you Me coatings oua bn An Army of 11,000 Men at Sea, you have Washington, D. C, July 1 —The ed that Secretary of War has receiyed aj“ ee telegram from Major Generel Otis fat San Francisco saying that the Ww. O. JACKSON, three military expeditions which LAWYER, already bave started for Manila were BUTLER, - - MO made up as follows: Will practice in all the courts, First— May 25—115 officers and — 2,386 men, General Anderson com Smith & Francisco, mauding LAWYERS, Second—June 15—155 ersacd Office over Bates County Bank. Butler, Missourl, f 3,425 men, under command jeral Greene Third—June « 4,650 mon, in command ae0 Thos. W.’ Silvers, J. A. Silvers, Butler, Mo Ofice Rich Hill, Me in rear of Farmers Bank Silvers & Silvers, !AT LAW 157 officers and of total neral McAribur, making a of 470 officers and 10,464 men ATTORNEYS ~ (Crisis at Santiago Wi! practice In all the courts Guatanamo Jaya del Este Bay, June 30-—Intercepted dispatches E : from Admiral Cervera show a4 crit A. W. THURMAN, ical state of affairs about Santiago. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Both food and ammunition are re-| Will practice in all the courts. Offee ove Bates County Bank, Butler, Mo, (tf) ported to be getting very short, and the latter will be exbausted soon For days the fleet has been unable to draw a shot from the batteries off tie barber even though g@ ivg very close to shore Shake Into Your Shoes Allen’s Foot-Ease, 8 powder for the feet. 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M, CHRISTY, HOMOBOPATHIC s i Pi Mat See eee re PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Washington, Ju'y 6 —A dispatch a occu 7 > fice, front room over Mc to the Washington Evening Star,| store.’ ail callanswered at office dayo! dated off Santiago, via Port Antonio, | night. ts Jamaica, July 6, eaye: After the| Og ts attention given 60 aN destruction of Spanish fleet}; —— seme 450 of the men upon the Slaria| © are | wer laced as pri+or ers « Surgeon. Office norta side squi —— stile Pris0" €T8| Butler, Mo. Diseasesof women and chil | upon the Harvard len a specialty. the ee C. BOULWARE, Physician ant For some reason, tot yet ascer-} ——————___————— tained, these men wutisied The} DR. J. T. HULL officers aud crew of the Harvard DENTIST. Newly Fitted up Rooms, Over Jeter’s Jewelry Store. were not unprepared, however, and the mutineers were fired upon. Six Spaniards were killed outright and twelve were wounded | Entrance, same that leads to Hagedorn’s Stadio, north si¢e equare , Butler, Mo, ‘count of her boasts would “destroy the American pige,’ and ber statement that can mavy had pline, nc nothing;” | wou'd be revenged upon Cervera by “no officers, of bow ehe| ,|800 and restored quiet. the Ameri-| no disci ; all these things | This taught the Spaniards a les | i ‘C. HAGEDORN The Old Reliable Desert Linares, Wachington, D. C, July 7—A} |dispatch from Maj Gen Shefter| the government if he were to go states that the strongest pressure is home immediately. being brought to besr on Gen. PHOTOCRAPH ER The navy and state department Linares to eurrender to meri- both have had a hint from very high quarters in diplomacy that that he would prefer, as an Admiral put it to day, “to wait till the clouds rolled by.” He is entitled to parole on his word cf honor and to receive while so paroled for one pay and allowance of an the same grade in the navy. When Cervera lived here 25 years ago, his r ce was 1201 K street, then and still an | quarter. year th Cervera mizht not care to be exchanged now} e of aristocratic fle kept open house and) ean forces without f North Side Square. Gen. Shafter sta ai : is atch tu Has the best equi d gallery eee grog se Southwest Missouri. All hundreds of wom ‘ have left Santiago. and Styles of Photogrphing his lines for protect large numb-r of tyle of the liere, | executed in the h J prices. act, and at rea onable Crayon Work A Specialty. and i f Major General |“ yore in Sasfter. men and — idren are being fed and cared for by Mies Clara Barton and her assistants. | Cc. HACEDORNA aranteed and see ion. Ca les of work,