The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 26, 1899, Page 3

west WA de wood SAYS CUBA NEEDS A BIG ARMY. general Predicts American Oc-; cupation Will Last Several Years. Washingtov, Jan. 16.—-General ard Wood, Military Commander of the Department of Santiago, was pefore the Senate Committee on Military Affairs to-day. He gave a detailed account of his operations in the province and in fhe city of Santiago, aud also gave his estimate of the military force necessary to maintaio order in the jslands. On the latter point he expreseed the opinion that for some time the 7,500 men now in the prov- joce of Santiago ebould ba continued, hat that after a time 5,000 would be qifficient for the service. He con sidered, however, that a military force would bo necessary to the maintenance of order for some years and said that it should be sufficient effectually avd qu kly co « a way INSURANCE LAW UPHELD. The Missouri Supreme Court Sustains the | Valued Policy Act | valued insurance policy statute of Missouri has been sustaised by the! Supreme Court of the United States In December, 1896, in Daggs va. the Orient Insurance Company, 136 Missouri 382, the validity and core stitutionality of the Misscuri statute | known as cection 5757, Revised Stat utes of 1889, came defore the Supreme Court of Missouri and was sustained in an opisim by Chief Justice Gantt, in which all Judges coucurred in bane. The section provided that is ali actions upon fire insurance poicies thore- after iseued or reneved he d feu asts should not be pimitial io deny that the property sure « worth at the time of thi is-uing of the poliey the full amomt insured The Supreme Cour, the ugh Judge Gantt’s opinion, held that the State had a perfct right to prescribe the conditions upon which it would permit a foreign insurance Jefferson City, Mo, Jan 19.—The| the trouble before if coal} gn head-|gompany to transact business within way. its territory, or to exelude it alto- This remark applied to the island gether; that this statute was not in asa whole, and he thought as many | eontraveation of the Castitution of a8 50,000 troops should be stationed | the United States or the Fourteenth throughout Cuba, With proper] Amendment thereto; thit it was not utions and tact be did not! gpecial legislation, nor retrospective anticipate trouble aad he believed | in its operation. that the insurgent forces would] The Supreme Couct >f the United rapidly disintegrate in all parts of | States was urged by allthe insurance the island. Santiago had been aloompanies to reverse this decision at stronghold of the Cuban ineur |of cur Supreme Coart, but that gents under Garcia, but they had/ceurt has affirmed the judgmant. now practically disbanded. This is the most famots and impert Outlining his mode of governing |ant insurance case decided by the the province, he said that he bad| Supreme Court of the Uzited States made no appointments to officelin many years. It fiaally settles the except upon the recommendations of | validity of the valued policy acts. Cabane, and that he had in all cases pat them upon their honor in mak-| They Captured the Horre Thieves. ing such recommendations. He had Police Officer Ben Bales returned shown absolute trust in them in all|home last night from Wyandotte, matters, going among them always| Kansas says the Review of the 16tb, unarmed and leaving the books of| where he went on Tuasday, together the administration always open to| with Horace Downing, of Sprague, their inspectioa. He hed Cubans in| to catch up with a couple of men all departments and his private} who stole a horse, bridle and saddle secretary had at one time beena|from Mr. Downing last October. member of Gomez's staff Thus they | They succeeded in lending both men always knew how their money hadjand recovering the property. The been expended and kuew just what| men, strapping young farmers, are THE MISSOURI Paro CapiraL, - Bills Receivable Real Estate exchange, Total | w J yr e < } ve | of Butler: Money on Han | | We certify the above is correct, Money to Loan at Lowest Ratest. THE Is lending Money on REAL ESTATE at lower rates than ever | and on time from one year to five years, allowing borrowers to | pay back part or all at any time and stop interest. a new loan or renew an old one, be sure and get our terms and rates. | —$___. = ———_— TATE BANK, S BANK, | of Butler, Missouri - - $55.000 00. Statement of the condition of the Missouri State Bank of Butler, Missouri, at the close of business Dee. 31, 1898. a E. WALTON, President. | R JENKINS, Cashier. | et Hy i| } | Missouri. If you want / d. No Delay. TWO SAFES BLOWN. | Lumber Yard and Mil Offices Eatered, | Butno Booty, \ Louisiana, Mo, Jan, 19.—The safeat D S. Flagg’s lumber yard was blown open by thieves last night. Mr. Flagg had taken several han- dred dollara from the safe the day before, and had deposited it in the bank and the robbers got nothing. The safe was completely wrecked. The office of the Diamond Flour, Mills was also visited by ths gang and the safsthere wasopered Va‘ uable papers contained in the eafe were strewn over the floor in great coafusion. The safe contained no money. Bloodhounde tre being used io an effort to trace the guilty parties. he was doing aa their Governor. natives of Wyandotte county, and General Wood eaid that his first | lived within balfa mile of each other. effort had been to encourage the| Bales captured them in their homes. people of all the towns to establish|Only one of the prisoners, Daniel self-government, and be had been| Brunke, was brought back. The especially zealous in having them | other one, Fred Smith, was seriously select their local ofticers, epen |sick, and was unable to be moved. scheols, establish courte,buiJd roads, | Mr. Bales placed a guard over him ete, and in cases where they did not | however, aud he will be brought to have the money for these purposes,|the Bates county jail, as socn as hehad aided them by making con. | possible. tributions from the general fund Brunke was taken to the county This system was entirely different | jail this morning by Deputy Sheriff from the old one under Spanish rule, | Page when all Brunke confesses to crime. th» collections were for the warded to Hxvana and never cem-| He eays he and Smith were taveling | back, only 16 per cont of the revenue | south with another party in @ wag- being devoted to local user. He had|on last fall but by the time they found the people especially jeulous|reaebed this section of country they of their rights in this respeet, and|had become tired and decided to the recent public meetings aud pro-|returnhome. Walking was not good tests against sending their revenue|and they has no money to pay car at Havana were due to this feeling.|fare they borrowed Mr. Downing’s General Wood spoke especially of | horse on which to make their jour- the establishment of schools and ths | ney. building of roads He said that he had 2,000 men making roads, and that he was getting many schools started Replying to a question from Senator Hawley, he said that the people were anxious for the Séparation of church and State in educational matters, and that they Seemed to want to be Americans in this as well as other respects. Speaking of Santiago City, he said the collections,mainly from customs; haye been suilicient to pay all legiti- mate expenses and feave a balancs of $230,000, which he meant to devote to cleaning out the harbor. This harbor, he said, had an accumulation Robbed the Posteflice. Jefferson City, Mo, Jan. 18.— Fred Lassell was held to-day by United States commissioner Geis- that he broke into and ou Sunday last. He obtained $15 ia stams and about $8 in money. He entered the postofiice by break- ing open the door during the day while the postmaster was absent at church. He is but 15 years of age, \Io. He was arrested at Providence - . hal McKenna, who of 10 feet of filth, ac his | bY deputy mare * 5 4 sere et breught him to this city. When ar Femoved he believed the city would i ce =oe be as heait! A : “ity |raigned before Commissioner Geis althy aa any American city. | heeaaa ts ko. th burg he pleade guilty to the Expects Washiugton, Much Sickneas. charge 19.—General | Jan. Lsonard Wood told the Senate Com- | It has been fully demonstrated mittee on Military Affaira to day | that Ely ; pron wage 13 se spec = | wate? Haol seid {for nasal caterrh snd cold in the penta ah DEON so uers head. This distinction has o t ek tix } . to be aoe Ouba’ was) achieved only as the re 1use the climate causes/;inyed successful use ‘ B j 80 much malaria and other cick tual ac ve action. Half hi, Wie Bea present 8 was not now ft for! Street, New York. It spreads ov effective service. In the Cuban army | the membrane, is absorbed and reli 60 per cont frequently were disabled. jis immediate. fi berg in the sum of $1,000 for the | federal grand jury to a confession) robbed the] postofiiceat Easley, in Boone county, | and says his home is in Des Moines, } To Assess Their Salaries for Bonds. Jefferson City, Jan. 18 —Rutledge introdueed a bill in the this morniog requiring every record- er of clerk, clerk, sheriff, prosecuting attorney. surveyor, assessor aud public admin istrator to pay to the state treasurer 2 per cent of a year’s salary of bis office as a bond lower house deeds, county circuit | Casunities ot the Spanish War Ce Washington, Jan 19. —Casualties of the Spanish war, as offi perted to the House C ly re ittee on |Invalid Pensions, were: Officers j killed, 26; enlisted men killed, 257. Officers wounded, 113; enlisted men |wounded, 1,467. Deaths from dis- ease, May Ist to December 3ist: Officers, 111; men, 4,854. Catarrh is” Not Incurable But it an not be cured by sprays which | i | } con: HAINES SHOOTS HIS FRIEND. Charles D Watson Mortally Wounded Ina Saloon, K. C. Times, 20th. Charles D. Watson, night bartend | er in Colweli’s saloon, at 1046 Union avenue, mortally the saloon at 1:45 o'clock yesterday morning by Jack Haines, a ticket broker, who lives in Topeka. | Watson lived fifteen minutes after the shooting He about 45 years old, and lives at 929 East 15th} street. He leaves a widow. Haines was arrested by Lieutenant Bray | wes sbot and wounded ia was and Officers Dalley and Keenan and} He is} 2 taken to police station No. 2 about 45 years old, and married. pot mas- ter at the union depot. Haines was associated with John Doherty in the Union avenue, and the two men were warm friends. Watson went to tend bar for the Hack Colwell and Haines removed to Tepeka, but the between the urbroken. Watson was formerly de ticket scalping business on lata friendship two men continued latter eame to Kansas City he in- | the gun Disney rolled down the re iton Trust Company, SHOOTS WOULD-8E ELOPERS, Fatier Sends Lead of Shot lute Suitcr tor His Daughter. Liberty, Mo., Jan. 19 —Robert Disney was dangerously wounded by being shot in the face Monday night | by George Johnson at the latter's beme near Linkville. Johnson heard eon the roof of a shed to his ouse while he was preparing to re- tire. He went out in the yard and saw Disney on the roof nesr a win- dow. He ordered | down, but Disney refused to obey Johnson got his gun, loaded it with goose shot and repeated the order, saying he would shoot “Sboot amd be—,” was Disney's reply. Johnson shot and at the report of Johnson dropped his gun him ie bis arms as he ground Disney was u and was carried into the house. A physician wassummoned. One eye was shot out, a few of his teeth and a portion of bis tong ! was cared for that J son's and the next day removed toa neighbors. He may recover, but will be badly disfigured for life. Disney has been paying attention tc Jobnson’s daughter against the will of the latter. Disney called to see the youn, lady the afternoou be- fore and her father was at home. Disney was promptly erdered away Disney is said to have made threats against Jobknson. It is eupposed he was trying to steal the young lady out the window to elope with her at night at u- ths time he was discovered on the ' roof. COCKRELL FOR PRESIDENT. The Kansas City Times Leaves Bryan for Missourian Kansas City. Mo. Jan.—I ing editerial to-morrow the o a lead- ne Kansas been a stanch ' City Times, whieb he supporter of Wm urge the candidacy of United States Senater Francis Marion Ccckre!! for the democratic presidential nomina tion in 1900. Senator C whom the people of Missouri have just elected to his fifth term in the United States Senate, forward as “an old fashioned demo crat, who stood for what the Chicago platform contains leng before that platform was promulgated; 3ryan. will krel! will ba put a demo erat of experience in national affairs, |whose record has stood the test of Ween the|time, who knows the plain people, and agaiaost whom the charge of — LS REVOLT SPREADING. Genera! Ries Se Madrid Fron i, Jan 19 M War citice bas received a m General I Spanish t noun ing the departure of He says tion at Manila is bomeward thet that t according to his ad tion in the Is Mindanao against the Americans is growing jrapidly. Nu s Mobammedans are there. and fa S are scouring j the country preaching a holy war It is further that the | | Island of Zebu is in full revelt. asserted | Premier Sagasta announces that jthe Queen Regent will sign a decree jconvoking the Cortes on the follow- jing day after th pt of the news of the ratification the treaty of peace by the Unit States Senate Young Sedatta Man Weds | Sedalia, Jan. 18 -Harry A. Cohen |@ prominen ug Hebrew business 7 was ¢ ¥ ast night to Mies Zida A Keaton, Rev.J 8 Bitler, pastor of the First M. K church officiating The wedding was a complete surprise, the groom being an orthodox Hebrew and the bride a promirent member of the Baptist chureb. Warships Go To Apia. London, Jan. 19.—A_ dispatch from Wellington, N Z, under yee derday'’s date, esvys it is reported there that three warships of the British Australian station have been ordered and that the American warsbips vow at Honolulu to Samoa, have been ordered ence to Apia to proceed at Wine Making in Portugal. In grea gency when all the mena ianded in the vine- yards, we e called to assist in wine trea Our correspon- dent saw women wear- ing their ow its which they skilfully gath round them until tk e biggest and most ab of Dutchman's “britchen” costt ein the winery THIS 18 A SCEN QUINTA N THE VILLAGE OF ORTUGAL 1 variably called upon his former demagogy has never been brought, = chum. who comes from the West and HAINES HAD BEEN DEI Y South, but whose services for 24 _ An improve ethod of —_ Haines arrived in Kansas City| years have been given to the whole it the Oporto Grape vised | = iota es < t yards some time Wedaesday. At night be! people of the United States wees N.J met officer Keenan on Union avenue and asked where Watson was em ployed. Keenan told bim and Mis |} Souri'’s right to consideration at the |hands of The Times will assert that Haines went to the saloos, now conducted by Lisle Colwell. him and he became drowsy. He re answered by the action of ex Con a democratic convention jeannot be questioned, adding that There | “the sole objection which could bave | he drank freely. The liquor affected | been urged against Cockrell, that he fought with the South, has been | f grapes @ he hopper, ser rollers, the grapes are between w crushed. The Port Wine from Speer’sVineyards beats rid for its valuable None put rine years nvalids, ties. -| old. Wea ersons,I tired toa wine rcom and went to sleep. | federate soldiers in the war of 1£98."| F males, Aged persons, About 1:30 o'clock Haines met} ‘12 tbis connection the Times will x “ge sod it will Officers Keenan and Dalley and told state that when the democratic solone tite. Ae them he had been robbed of $30 by|C°PVention meete in 1900 the time ed- Wateon while he was asleep The will have come to ignore that old nme and officers paid no attention to him, as| Sectional fecling ‘which has foreed | family use. s WHO Watson bore an excellent rey uta-|the democratic party to nate | “DEAL IN HI i tion. Fifteen uo tered the s s bar, at the opposite Wateon stood, *Ce Taines en- he b and coaxingly- Without answering the bullet tak left si Ww Haines, ed down and then where ke died consciousness e Haines walked outside to Union avenue, where the officer by the shooting, met him and placed him under srre He made no tempt to resist Willism King Fred Curtis, were witne Coroner Lester ge of the remains. r 8 attra at candidates whom it did not want,” | and that if sentiment is to play any! part in the «l on ofa presiden candidate, it shoul i be proclaimec The Semi-Weekly Republic. i t 3 ; The S Weekly Republic has se “that the natien s best is the nation’s i z si oabia many advastages a* a news gathere no matter what uniform he J 13 ‘i 25 | that no ctber pape claim to be 35 years ago | a : A é its ex The w field of news Ss + special ig Price for sare elwaye Boston, M “ 2 con. te Ie eee ‘ vr bose wife the wonderful | 1 t plant was named ” F n0 bred the flower, hes accepted the Rept b eve been Lawson and that cof J aliem flower will blossom c ry ardens of the Key 4 be * Loy | in” 155