The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 13, 1898, Page 2

A THRILLING HISTORICAL INCIDENT. | was locked on with » brass lock, the| sawe as io use on freight cars. mE: ordered the men to their quarters, | EF How! General les had Jefferson Davis; Overpowered and Shackeled. Mississippi Valley Demecrat and Journa! of CAPT. TETLOW 8 ACCOUNT I reported to Gen. Miles as the new officer of the day. The genera! aaid he bad special orders for me to} Jeff Davis. Having heard it ramor- ed that morning that Davis was to be put in irons, I said to the general: “J think I can guess what it is, gen- eral.” “Well, Captain?” | “To put irons on Davis.” He said:| “That is it.” I said: wish it done?” He said: “The irons are not ready.” Then I said: “Had | we vot better put them on toward evening?’ He said: “Yes,’ and I could send my orderly to the black. | smith and have him meet me at the time with the leg irens, and at the same time be (Gen. Miles) showed mea part ofaletter he bad from Secretary Stanton, in which he said that if he thought the safety of Davis required it he could put irons on Davis, or words to that effect. The matter was left optional to Gen. Miles as to whether Davis should be put in irons er not. Just before the sundown relief, I sent my orderly for the blacksmith to meet me with the leg irons at the case mate. Soen after I went down I found the smith and his helper there. I then unlocked the door and told the guard to let them pase, smith and helper. As I entored the gun room Davis was sitting on the end of his eot, or hospital bed reading an Epiecopal prayer book, and as he looked upI said, “Mr. Dayis, I have a disagreea ble duty to execute;’ At the same moment, seeing the blacksmith with the irons, he said: “You do notin tend to put fetters on me?” I eaid: “Those are my orders.” He said: “Those are orders for a slave,and no man with a soul in him would obey such orders.” I then said: “Those are my orders.” Mr. Davis said: “I shall never submit to such an indig- nity.” He then asked if Gen. Miles bad given that order. My answer wasin the affirmative He eaid he would like to see Gen. Miles I re- plied that Gen. Miles had just lft fort. Davis then asked that the ex- €cution of the order be postponed, and I should telegraph to the Presi- dept in his name. I said: “Mr. Davis, you are an old soldier and know what orders are. It is needless to Say that an cflicer is bound to ex ecute an order given him.” Davis eaid it was obvious that there ceuld be no necessity for such an order to make his imprisonment seeure I said: “My duty is to execute this order and it is folly for you to resist.” Davis’ answer was that he wasa soldier and knew how to die, and,} pointing te a sentinel said: ‘Let your man shoot me at once.” A few mements after that he placed his foot on @ stoo!; bis quiet manner led me to think he would not resist. Ithen said: “Smith, do your work.” As tbe blackemith stooped to place the clasp of the shackle around the ankle Davis struck him a violent blow that threw Lim to the floor. He recovered, end at once made for Davis with his | vise and hammer, and would have | struck him if I bad not caught his| arm as he was in the act of striking. | A moment after thas I saw Davis and one of the sentinels struggling, | ®oth having hold of the musket, | what is it, | perfectly motionless gave way | was anythi “When do you|A Davis just below the bayonet. The next instant the centine] had wrench ed the musket from Davie’ hands. I then ordered tho sentinel to bis post and reprimanded him for leavy ing. Inow saw there would be trouble, so I ordered the officer of guard to go ovt and get four of the best men of the guard with outside, arms and have them report to me at once. A few minutes afterward four stalwart soldiers made their @ppearance. I said: Men. I wish you to take Mr. Davis, with as | force as possible, and place bi that cot, and hold him there u the smith is through with bis w As the men advanced Davis struck the first or foremost map, but all four instantly closed~on him anc ehoved him on the cot. Davis OW: ed unnatural strength: it was the four men could do to huld him while the blacksmith riveted the clasp around his ankle, his helper hol ding | hum s sledge hammer. The other clasp | © ttle and as they passed out Dayis lay Just as I was going out Davis raised from his cot} | and threw his feet on the floor, and | with the clanking of the cbhaius : I will say bere that it | ng but a pleasant sight to me to see a man like Jefferson Davis} shedding teare, | bad he to say. ALL SEEK AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP. Spanish Commissioner's View of the tion’s New Destiny. Paris, Oct. 5.—La Patrie prints} an interview said’to bave been had| with General Rafael Cerero y Saenz of the Spanish peace commission, in which he is represented as saying: “Peace between Spain and the United States will complicate all the eastern questious. The day upon which the preliminaries are signed the first chapter in the new history of Europe will bs commenced, as the United States henceforth will play a preponderant role in events of which different parts of the world will be a theater. “It has been pretended that Spain wanted war, or at least allowed ber self to be dragged into it. This isa mistake, since the United States bave colonies. They autonomic ideas long coveted our introduced separatist aod into Cuba, ideas which were not sbared by the ma jority of the ivbabitants of the islands. Influences of all kiads huve been brought into risings and hence evsuel a war, the consequences of which may be so prejudicial to ourselves and may «f play to exeite fect all European interests. The North side will becompelled to create all the naval forces demanded by the situation. The stronger the United States are the more their friendship will be sought after. Look at the extrems Orient, where France, Russia, Germany and England are powerful riva's. If the Americans install themselves in the Philippines, the situation will be greatly modified and they will not hesitate to seek the friendship of Japan and England tothe detriment of all other nations This will be for America a truly privileged situ- ation, but the diplomatic role will be rendered proportionately moro difficult.” Americans on their BY BULLETS 1; BY DISEASE 7. Official Figures Show 345 Killed by Span- iards and 2,565 by Sickness. Washington, Oct. 5.—Spanish bullets aud shells are respoosible for the deaths of ovly 345 American soldiers from May 1 to date. while during the same period direase, and, perhaps inoompetenoy, killed 2.565 brave boys in blue. These figures are official. They were given out by Adjutant General Corbin in the form of a bulletia which was posted on tha war bulle- tin board at the door ef bis offiee. An officer who stood in front of the board and read the figures said: “This should be an object the investigating commission to study deeply. It will at least form |@ yaluable text, coming out officially as it does at this time The official bulletin reads as fol jlows: ‘Deaths from all tween May 1 and September 38, in- clusive, and reported to the adjutant | | general to October 3, 1898: Rilled| in action—23 officers and 257 evlist- ed mes ;died frem wounde—4 cfiieers and 61 enlisted men; died of disease | lesson for | —SO officers and 2.485 enlisted maen, | ; an aggregate of 2.910 deaths out of a total force of 274,717 men.” There was no supp! lemental — ment issued shc the thousanc of men now in the ho spitsl or conva- lescent from the effects of disease, exposure and lack of proper food and protection. Those figures add ed to the deaths would make a start ling aggregate and balance heavily officers aud} 5 agua during the war with Spsio A Sure Thing for You. cannot lose Is headache, fur- funded. — e but not one — causes be-| ALGER REPLIES. Indirectly Blames Sampson for Much—Sub- mits Telegrams Showing His Advices Changed Army Arrangements | Washington, D C, Oct. |retary Alger to day handed to the President for transmission to the | War Department investigation his answer to the six HONEST { ACVERTISING Brings honest customers. The kind we are eatering for and continuanee of thi 7€ ).—Sec Commission for questions asked him by the Commis- sion ne trad at our store mainly becat ise | In starting the Santiago expedi- know that it pays .. 2 a jen and partly because tion from Tampa the Secretary says hey ‘have gotten used to the delay was due to the ure of e store . : the st will lhas never been | the navy to provy.dea convoy for the ends telegrams octs TEEN panish built othe er than with hou- and enterprise and ucting the bus | ec along lines acceptable to the customer. | trans; orts. He s | to show that ther fleet was the Would rather give money back for an empty bottle than have adissatisfied cus- tomer. That is our method of business. The questions as to the selection of cemps at Tampa and other places are answered by referring the Com | mission to reports of officers sent in H. L. TUCKER, regard to camp sites Preseription Druggist, North Side Square, BUTLEE, MO. decided to begia operations in Cuba, Fe Secretary Alger says that a cam =: at me paign against Havana was first < decided on, but it was afterward determined to take Santiago first. eo He says that the Santiago campaign was not considered until Admiral Sampson asked for troops to capture May Be Made Vice Admiral by Congress—|Santiago, so that Cervera's -fleet President and Secretary Long to Re- could be driven out of the harber or cemmend This and Suspension ef destroyed inside. Retirement. Telegrams from Admiral Sampson Warhingten, D. ©, Oc. 5 —Pres’-| to that effect are appended dent McKinley and Secretary of the} Nav; Long will, it is anacunced, Ladnctsntated a ® > 4 REWARD FOR DEWEY. To Cure Constipation Forever. Take Cascarcts Candy Cathartic. 108 or %e 3 Ir C. C. GC. fall to cure, druggiete refan reen>mend to Oongress the reyival | money. of ti« gerade of Vice Adiira!, to be DIED IN THE KLONDIKE. fille hy the premotion of Rear Ad: =| Dawey Hl = . A Former Henry County Citizen Expires at President MeKisley, in bis anoual y si Circle Cit ye Henry County Democrat. Mrs. Deck Debow, of LaDue, has received a letter from Circle City with the sad intelligence that her husband had died in that ei:y on the 6th of August of typhoid fever Mr. and Mrs. Debow left bere fer Cahfornia several years since, and whena the firet rush to the Alaska via ae of (rt field began, he sent his wife the Asiatic squadron has received no} neo oe Se coe oa peneS aE x . | county to make their howe with rel- df FECeE RTO fox) bis work atiyes while he sought fortune in the since May ‘i whioh involved the dis- far north. Instead of gold he found . Saye | region of ice and snow. ee Mrs. Debow and her little ones will Ac under the existing law Rear| pave the sincere sympathy of all in Admiral Dewey will reach the retir- : : this great bereavement. ny age in December, 1899, there is S astrong probability that Secretary | Lion Attacks Ais Keeper, Leng will also urge that Cengress| Butte, Mont, October 2—Walter pase a law permisting bis retention| Blanchard, better known as Zeke upor the aotive list for an additiosal| Walters, the animal man with Lemen ten yoars Bros.’ circus, was attacked in the lion cage by one cf the lions, who felled him with a blew on the head j with its paw sand continued the atteck as he lay prostrate. Walters | mess-g, eet Secretary Lony, iu his} inl report, will devote consider abnD able space to the achievements of | the Asiatio squsdron und-r Dewey. | Authorities say that in Resr Admiral Dewey to his present gros for services performed in the| batr!e of Manila Bay he was not rewarded to the extent that Rear Admirals Sampson and Schley were, advancing | and that the con tangible Ovation te Gen New York, Oct 5.—A tremendous evation was given Major General Fitzhugh Lee at Wallack’s Theater | last night Wise « party of friends | S*8>bed one of the bars of the oage he entered a box te hear the opera| and drew b'mpe'f to his fest, at the “The Forsuse Teller.” }@are time attempting to fight off Just before the eariain fell at tha the brutes Almost blinded by blood end of the first acta buneh ef roses from the wounds in his bead, Wal- maathecen onthe stage. | bers dragged himself to the door at ise Nieleon had observed the|*2e rear of the cage. Unfastening gallant General, and prompily threw) |it, he leaped to tke street and fell the roses into his bex. The aitentien | U2SoPseious ae eeonee or of ake ‘acdisuee eae ating. the | 200F slammed ebut after bia exit, llights went up and the General was| thus preventing the escape of the recognized, Cheer sfiec cheer a ae Walters’ back is terribly the air. Gen. Lee bowed sgain and lacerated. The doctor says he can| not lire. again,but did sot otherwise respond. | The eurtain then aress again and revealed the entire company of 80 or] 90 people en the stage. They gare | committed suicide to-day by drown- three ckeers for Gen. Lee aad then 7. jsaug “The Star Spangled Banuer,” ane mised tale pond. (240 tied iim Peentiar Case ef Suicide. Paris, Ky, Oct. 2.—T. C. Collins | inst the Algerian methods em- the audience jeining im with wil Mayen if in a buggy, loonened @ tsp ona enthueiasm. Gen. Lee leaned over! wheel ani dreve in to a depth of 10} |the balustrade and shook hands! feet. Mo was the father of het | jwith as many as he could resch.|Gojjins, who was foued dead witha Some time elapsed before the excite- | male c ompacion in a Boston lodging ment subsided house a few years ago The escapade ofa younger daugater caused his suioide. We live in a country of which the | priucipel scourge ia stomache trou ble. It iz more widespread than any other disease, and, very nearly, more Jangerous Ove thing that makea it eo sthat itis so little undcr- ‘A CLEAR HEAi dan- | ger stood If it were better understood, would be mors feared, more easily cured, lees uviversel than it is now So, those who wish to be cured, take Shaker Digestive Cordial, be cauee it goes to the root ef the trouble as no other medicine does. | The pure, harmless, curative herbs and plante. of which it is composed, are what render it so certain and, at the same time, so gentle a cure. : It helps and strengthens the stom- 2 : : |ack,-ified and tonés-up the sye-| an all Stine’ diseases. whsfexte * Tutt’s Liver Pilis i cause of a six-day As to the time the administration | FAMOUS aa For 30 years the trade of Jewel Stoves Je wel Stoves and Ranges. OVER _ 3000000 JEWEL STOVES ARE ‘SOLD BY T. W. LECC. Santiago, De Cuba, Ost 5—The For all repairs, or partes of Buggies, Perries Toad wagors, farm wagons, phactons & 4 United Btates “traaspors: Obdar, | | shafts, neckyokes, wheels, dashes. om which left here Sunday,bae returced | top. T sell the best with her bunkersou fire The Buggy Paint on Earth. ence of fire was discovered Monday | eye soask'dites ac in the main hold, which was a; once | flooded with 50 024 of water, aed a| DO NOT RUIN THE WHEERS gsvg of mes was put % work re | will farnten you a bugsy moving the ammunition, of which} HIGH OR LOW GRADE the ship carried a large supply. All the officers and soldiers who were not suffering ad worked hardtoexeia,uieh the flemes, It is hop be able to leave here egain in three daye’ time Transport Oban oe Fire. pres- for very few dollars have patronized n from cea vickrers, adisierenl Ww. O. iACKGORe LAWYER, BUTLER, - - MO. His Life for His Family. Louisville, Ky, Oot. 5 —In order that his femily wight be ben+fitted by the $1.600 life insuranee which be carried, Martin Edgar, nigbt watchman for the Frack A Manne ee practice in all the courts, Smith & Francisco, LAWYERS, Office over Bates County Bank, Candy Company, yesterday com- Butler, Miveourt | mitted euicide by shootirg fis - J. A. Silven. Butler, Mo Oftice Rich Hilh, Me body was feund ia an office chair by the bookkeeper years of age and Jeaves a widow and in rear of Farmers Bank , a » Silvers & ——ATTORNEYS Edgar was 65 - Silvers, several grown chi AT LAW— W111 practice in all the courts. A. W. THURMAN, ~ ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, TABLER’S BUCK EYE ep ILE OINTMENT CURES NOTHING BUT PILES, | Will practice in all the courts. Offes om Bates County Bank, Butler, Mo, Of | (GRAVES & CLARK, ATTORN YS AT 1 A SURE and CERTAIN CURE Office over the Missourl State Banif 4 known for 15 years as tho } North side square. & BEST REMEDY for PILES. g = ss — SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. B DR, fs G. ZEY, a by BISEARDGON ME2 nA PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. | al akete cee | Day and night. Office over Womack U Store, North side square, tiusler, Mo. c § fi ———} {c Before “DR. J. M, CHRISTY, — HOMOnOorAarHi . uying PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, W Office, tront room over McKibbesi jf store. Ail cailanswered at office dayo! night. Specialattention given to temale db} W | Cases. a aper pts es ERS m" ’ TC, BOULWARE, Physician eb e Surgeon. Office norta side H Butler, Mo. Diseases of women an a Be sure and exam- en a specialty. dl } a inesLudwicks stock m engeDHIM DR, J. T. HULL |,, € 1as_ the’ best DENTIST. a. selected stock in Newly Fitted up Rooms, Ove no oa $ Jeter’s Jewelry Store. Ke town. Prices guar- tic 5 Entrance, same that leade to Hageteryy si anteed the lowest Studio, north side equere , Butler, wh ; tak i for the value. 4 J. F LUDWICK. ie Z The above named firm whieh has bees formed to Blacksmithing Busin a general - manned ——s ; PHOTOGRAPH ER C, HAGEDORN The Old Reliab Styles of Pasteur > of the IMR. WE L TOM on a Crayon Work A Specialty. All work in my line is gnaranteed te give satisfaction. Call and see | samples of work. C. HACEDORN. Te Mac Buggy and j Shop Second doer «2s store, southeast corner}s