The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 22, 1898, Page 1

gama % vr Hie Ss. WITH GENERAL LAWTON. fates County Boy’s Tough Experience at Santiago. Yellow Fever, Now Down With Typhoid. Bfiiter C. Shields, who faced isn bullets on San Juan Gill ws in the trenehes fronting goat the time of Toral’s sur- , is now lying at his father’s sear Amsterdam with typhoid , wed in his delirium charging breastworke and cutting those barbed wire fences fe enlisted in Co. H, U.S regu- at Denver, Col., in the fall of | This company was detailed Iawton’s command and was on |FARMER AND ROBBER | KILLED IN A FIGHT. ‘Chas. Duffner of Dallas County | Had a Desperate Struggle With Bandits. CUT ONE MAN’S THROAT. After that He Was Shot in Back by a Confederate. Springfield, Mo, Sept. 16.—News reached this city to-day of a tragedy which occurred at 6 o'clock Thurs day evening at the home of Charles Doffoer, five miles north of Fair Grove in Dallas county, in which Mr. Duffaer and an unknown rcbber lost their lives. Charles Duffoer is the first transports that Ianded on (aban coast. They were in the of the fight and bore all the ions incident to that cam until the capitulation of that Walter Shields was then stricken hyellow fever, which ran its in fifteen days, leaving him yery weak, emaciated condition. was brought home ou the trans- Yucatan and landed at Mon- Point Sept. 2nd. He was given ough for 30 days and landed osas City with typhoid fever, he wes met by his father and ed to his home. Walter O. Shields is the son of T. Shields, a resident of our county 2 years. He was born in Bates yand spent the greater part tis life on his father’s farm. He of a fighting family, two of hia gave their lives to the Union last war. The doctors in at- dance say he is doing nicely and strong hopes of his getting Which ia the ardent hope of elped a Sick Soldier. fopeka, Kas., Sept. 16 —While iog home from Denver to Em- faafew days ago, Mrs Plumb, of the late United States or Plumb, found a sick soldier Pie train. She had the young taken to her berth in the and ministered to his wants g the iong, tiresome journey the state. She telegraphed d to her nephew and he accom- d the invalid, Frank Gibson, to home in Winfield. When asked ning her action, Mrs. Plumb Place the young man in good dsand bave him cured; then all ges will be paid.” 4 Bucklen’s Arnica Salve “Fee Best Salve in the world for bruises, sores, ulcers, salt b, fever sores, tetter, chapped , chilblains, corns, and all skin Hons, and positively cures piles pay required. It is guaran- Fitogive perfect satisfaction or refunded. Price 25 cents box. For sale by H. L. Tucker. {REx Fotart v0 oo w [esti WALL & [PERC BUTLER, MO: RM BROAN SS, IVAL| one of the most prominent farmers in Dallas county. He went to Europe August 4 with his daughter. r Duffner returned home last Monday and deposited a sum of money iu the bank at Springfield. Wednesday morning a stranger BENNETT-WHEELER So MERCANTILE CO. | Headquarters for | Hardware, Groceries, Stoves, Ma- Wagons, Queensware, Farm chinery, Buggies Road Wagons, Corn Cutters, Wire Nails, Woven Wire Fencing, Bran, Corn, Baled Hay and Field Seeds. Grain Drills, STOVES, STOVES, STOVES. We are selling the Wilson air tight wood heater, which is the best air tight heater made. Has top draft and no openings in bottom at all, which makes it impossible for ashes to sift out or sparks to fly out called at the home of Mr. Duffaer and bought some wine of Mrs. Duff- ner. He said he would call again in the evening after some more wine. At about 6:30 o'clock that eyening Mr. and Mrs. Duffoer were in the yard when two men walked in and demanded money. The men wore false whiskers, and Mr. Duffaer only laughed at the demand and Mrs. D. stepped up to one of the men and pulled off the false whiskers, where. upon the fellow drew a revolver and fired at her, the bullet graziny the side of ber head. Mr. Duffoer jumped on the man anda fight ensued Otto Duffner,a grown son, seized the other man by the arms from bebind and kept him from using his gun. Mr. Duffner succeeded in getting his knife from his pocket and slashed the man across the throat, from the effects of which he died a few minutes later. Young Duffaoer called his father to his assistance and he rushed at the second robber and slashed his neck with the knife, but the wound was not serious and before he could strike again, a third robber, who had been standing in the road, ap- proached and shot Mr. Duffaer twice in the back, killing him almost in- stantly. Stanley and Potter, two neighbors, were about a quarter of a mile down the road when they heard seven shots. They stopped and in a few minutes the little daughter of Mr. Duffoer came down the road crying that robbers were killing her father. They at once returned and met Otto Duffaer, who said his father had been killed by three robbers and re quested them to go in pursuit of the murderers. They went to the yard where the fight occurred and found Mr. Duffaer dead and one of the robbers bathed in his own blood, barely breathing. The fellow had his eyes open, but would not tatk.| Stanley, accompanied by Potter and his brother, started in pursuit of the two robbers and followed them for eight miles, when the trail was} lost and they returned. The wound- ed robber was still living and about | 50 men and gathered by this time but failed to recognize the fellow. | They asked him many questions, on your carpet. Will keep fire longer and use less wood than any other heater on the market. We also handle the Peoria wood base beater. For coal we have the Garland Oak which stands at the top in coal heaters Makes no clinkers and is perfectly air tight. In cook stoves we can show you most any style made, will sell you a good cook stove from $5 up, or a good Steel Range from $20 up. If needing a stove of any kind don’t fail to see us before buying, as we ean save you money. We are headquarters for coal hods, stove boards, elbows, pipe, shovele, pokers, ete. WAGONS, WAGONS. We are selling more wagons than all our competitors combined, be- cause we have the best wagons avd are selling them cheaper. Can sell you a good warranted wagon from $50 up. We handle the Peter Schut- tler, Mitchell, Weber and Clinton. We handle the Hoosier and Im proved Indiana grain drills. If needing a drill don’t fail to see our new Hoosier Disc drill, which is taking the lead everywhere. Can sell you a good hoe drill from $35 up. We are still selling nearly all the buggies, for the reason that we give you a better buggy for the money than avy of our competitors. We handle the celebrated Racine buggy with steel corner which makes it im possible for the corners to open like they do when made the old way. We have a fine lot of road wagons and surreys and are selling them cheap. Pledse call and see us before buying, as you will save money by doing so. Remember we pay kinds of country produce. Drive right up to our store when you come to town and you will always get the top price for anything you have to sell. GROCERIES, GROCERIES. We are headquarrters for gro- ceries Have the best stock in town and can give you lower prices. Our grocery trade bas doubled the but he only stared at them. He} finally asked fora drink of water,! but before they gave it to him he| expired. He wae a large, heavy set | man with a dark mustache. There was nothing on his person by which | he could be identified. | At 1 o’clock a. m. the Sheriff ar- | rived and organized a posse and} started in pursuit of the robbers. | The body of the dead robber was} taken to Buffalo by order of the/ Sheriff. It is believed the posse will capture the two robbers as one of) the fellows has a bad cut on his throat, and it will be a hard matter | for him to escape. The wounded] lost his revolver inthe fight, and} will not be able to make much of a| resistance if overtaken. The men} are evidently strangers in that vicin-| ity, as no one is able to identify the dead robber. About two weeks ago a farmer, toloan on farms at reduced rates of Your notes are payable at our office - — mpeg due. We gi Papers are signet, - living seven miles from Mr. Duffner's home, was robbed by three men wearing false whiskers and answer- ing the same description. past year and we expect to make prices so low that we will increase it the coming year. FLOUR AND FEED. We are just unloading another ear of the celebrated Pleasanton Flour, shorts, and bran, so don't fail to see us when needing any| You know those| Pleasanton shorts and bran are! Flour and Feed. much richer than you can get at any other mill. We will make you some extremely low prices in large quan tities. Can sell you a 50 fh eack of flour from 76 cents up We have a good stock of corn, oats and baled hay. Bring us your chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, butter and eggs. We always pay the top price. We thank you for the liberal trade given usin the past and solicit a continuance of the same in the fu- ture. Respectfully, Bennett-Wheeler Merc. Co. LEADERS OF LOW EPRICES. the highest} price in cash as well as trade for all | BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 1898. TO THE PUBLIC: We have just received a large consignn | match s | | pains to 000 000 00-0 000 000000000000 attractive and useful. If vou CAPTAIN ALLYN CAPRON | DIED AT FORT MEYER. | Was in Command of a Famous Battery in the Battle of Santiago. Washington, Sept. 15.-—Captain Allyn Capron, First Artillery, died at his home, near Fort Myer, Va., to-day Captain Capron was one of the! best known officers in the regular army. He had devoted himself par- ticularly to the artillery branch of the service, having been an honor | graduate of the Artillery School in 1873, and was regarded as an au- thority on artillery tactics. When) General Shafter’s corps went to San- | tiago Captain Capron aecompanied | it, and his battery did notably fine work in the battle of Santiago During the first day’s fight, Captain Capron’s con, Captain Allyn K. Cap- ron of the Rough Riders, was killed. The death of his seu preyed upon the father’s mind, but he never swerved for an instant from his duty in the terrible days that followed. The seeds of disease were sown in | i his system during the Cuban cam-| paign, and he returned to his home | at Fort Meyer, near this city, only to be stricken down with typhoid fever His death occurred about 12 o'clock to day. JACK THE RIPPER Again at Work in Nevada, Post 15th. Wednesday night the premises ef J. E. Smith living 6 miles north of town, were visited by Jack the Rip- per or some ecoundrel essaying that | fiend’s particular role. A fine cow belonging to Mr. Smith | was found next morning in his barn yard completely disemboweled in a! manner similar to that pursued in | Nevada some weeks ago. The poor animal was still alive when found, | but she had to be killed. There is | no clue to the perpetrator of the| outrage. | Snitan is Made to Accede, Candia, Island of Crete, Sept. 15 —The sultan has ordered Djevad | Pasha, the military commander ir | Crete, to accede to the demand of | lthe British admiral, Gerard Henry | Noel, for disarmament, thus comply- jing with the whole ultimatum of the admiral. A Britieh military detach- |ment today occupied the entrance | }to the fort and itis rumored that |the Ottoman troops will be with- drawn and a British force will occa. | conducted by Eider Johnstown M py the town. Among the prisoners already jhanded over to Admiral Noel are two who are credited with being ringleaders in the attack on the | British camp. Remarkable Re Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfield, |Tll., makes the statement that she }eaught cold, which settled on her | lungs; she was treated for a month by her family physician, but grew worse. He told her she wasa hope |less victim of consumption and that no medicine could cure her. Her | druggist suggested Dr. King’s New Discovery fer consumption: she | bought 2 bottle and to her delight found herself benefitted from first |dose. She continued its use and lafter taking six bottles, found her- | self sound and well as she ever was. | Free trial bottles of this Great Dis- covery at H. L. Tucker's Drug Store. Large bottles 50c and $1. je. afes for the wall which are will ta eall we will be glad to one with our compliments. FAR | i Eee ae eee eee en eT Ee ee Oe a No Missouri Day at Umaha. Jefferson City, Mo. Sept. 16.— ' There will be no Missouri day at held in Stockton yesterday the Omaha exposition. bas been finally determined, and Mr. Sterritt, chairman of the Mie- sourl commission, so wrote Secretary M. V. Carroll today. Sufficient interest in the matter could not be aroused to guarantee success, and it was with great reluctance that the plan was finally abandoned, so the imperial state of the Mississippi valley will not have a day at the only distinctively western exposition ever held. The matter | i] Deepwater Items. Ike Varnes of Pleasant Gap, pur-| chased some hogs from Grandma), Wilker, last Thursday. Commie Coleman made a trip to Montrose Friday on business. | Mr Will McCool and wife, of Kan- POPPOPPIOP OY POO OOO POD HOP PIP OOOO S present NO 45 “ vou MERS BANK. A meeting of the democratic and populist executive committees was A cox- ference of the two committees was beld and a fusion agreed upon. The | populists were given the offices of prosecuting attorney, circuit clerk, treasurer, probate judge and judge of the southern district, subject te the withdrawal of the democratic candidates.—Stockton Journal Public Sale. I will sell at public saleon my place one mile and one half southwest of Nyhart, on Thursday, September 29, | 1898, the following property, to-wit: 35 head of hogs, consisting of 6 brood sows, 2S shoats, and one thorough- bred Poland China boar, one mam- moth Jack, 15 hands and 1 inch high, an extra good breeder; one Bain wagon, one two seated surrey, one dise harrow, one corn planter and check rower, 2 breaking plows, 2 cul- tivators, one steel frame hee one sas City, visited atthe home of his! cook stove, one coal heating stove, unele, H Shelton, last week. | other household goods, corn in field Caleb McComic and Miss Nettie | and oats in bin, 1 set wagon harness, | Ensley eloped and were married in | some thoroughbred silver Wyendott Kansas Sept. 9th. They have the | chickens. | best wishes of their many friends TeERMs: Ten months time will be | through life’s dull patuway. | given without interest if paid when | §$ W Gilliland went to Montrose on | due, if not paid when due to draw 8 business last Friday. percent from date, Notes to bear Several of our young people are! approved security. | reported as chilling this week. JAMES SiMP George Allison sports a new spring | WwW. sAFOLLET?T, Auctio: | wagon. te Henry Zimmers has quit threshing | and gone into the sorghum business. | | He says that pleases the girls best | “sweet boy.” | Grandma Wilker leaves this week | | for a few days yisit to Vernon county | with her daughter, MrsJohn Allison. | | H P Callahan, the Johnstown | | drummer, epent last week on the} | road and reports a good trade. | Russel Thomas has started a new | barber shop at Johnstown. | him a call. | WH Shelton and wife also W H | Zimmers and son, Frank, took in the vicinity of Spruce last Saturday. | Humphrey Gutridge, the first-class merchant of Spruce, is having a fine | rock store erected and will move his | stock of goods as soon as finished. Ed Chambers isthe proud posses-, sor of a new buggy. Mrs Bassett who has been quite! sick, is now convalescent. D H Kash has purchased a farm! near Metz. Nate Coleman and wife have friends visiting them from Clinton. The Elm Grove school commenced Give | Sept. 12 with Mrs Sue Fletcher as teacher. | Gus McCool, who has been thresh- is on the road! ing iu home. The Johnstown school is progres- sing nicely under the auspices of Mrs Bettie Hart. Misses Nettie and Belle Johnston, were the guest of Misses Gertie and Lulu Shelton last Sund Eugene Greene from Illinois, is visiting bis uncle, John Green, near Spruce this week. The ice cream suy at Germentown Ca a grandsuccess. P benefit of the priest. Henry Parker, the home barber living near Germantown, wishes to say to the boys that Saturday i day that be receives custome Oklahoma, er Sunday nig lic church was ts were for the Died, at bis home, on last Frid Uncle Nick Choate, an old and ly respected citizen. E Royal makes the food pure, wholesome and delicious. | } | ! pranienen Why Not Be Particular in selecting a BUGGY OR FARM WAGON We claim to have the best. An inspection of our carriage repository and warehouse and the good vehicles they contain will convince you that we buy nothing but first-class goods. No shoddy because they know we one ever tries to sel] us don’t buy that class of goods. FARM WACONS. We have just piled up in our warehouse bright new car of the celebrated BAIN WAGONS. This wagon needs no praise from us. I heer ur leader in Butler tl ust sixteen vears and you know ence. We also have tea al Kentucky and Old Hickory wagons. Sold a car of Ker repairs. Our buggies. Phaetons, ir- ries. Road wagons, : rm wagons are all warranted to the extreme limit of the car- riage maker is all that any back up. DEACON BROS. & CO. antee, wi honorable firm can mouanwteenre —