The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 23, 1899, Page 1

- w. H. M'LEAN DEAD. 4 Hill Pioneer—A Hero of Three Wars Enterprising Citizen and a Good Man is Gone. Review. », H. McLean died at his home pe! Park Ave at 11:20 o’clock dsy worning of appendicitis, an illness of only about a week. sed was the son of Wm. B. , who was & midshipman in | U. S. navy under Commodore | gp in 1812 and at the time of death was a Post Captain in the The subject of our sketch was | in New York (> Jannary 15, 9 and was theiciore aged 77 | | month and 5 days He was | fin the naval service of his try and entitled to rank as a/| ip. He pasaed through the | ‘Mexican war, the Florida war and jhe civil war, serving in the latter from 1861 to 1965. - Incivil life he was for many years locomotive engineer. But pearly 9 years ago retired from i pasiness 9He came to Rich Hill in| | theeerly deys of the town’s history | from Flore, I!ls, and located here | | with the view of making Rich Hill | | his hom 3. ae | How to Look Good. | Good looks are really more than | skin deep, depending entirely upon a healthy condition of the vital iss. ‘If the liver is inactive, you have a bilious look; if your stomach | js dis ordered you have a dyspeptic | look; if your kidneys are affected, | you havea pinched look Secure health, and you will surely have good |: »oks. “Electric Bitters” isa good alterative and tonic Acta directly on the stomach, liver and} kidneys, purities the blood, cures pimples, blotches and boils, and gives a good complexion. Ever bot- ‘We guaranteed. Sold at H L Tuck-) e's drug store. 50 cents per bottle. ) ’ No. Dummy Candidater. Jefferson City, Mo, Feb a7.—=| Senator Vandiver’s bill to shut out} dummy candidates, was passed by | the senate this morning with but lit- tle opposition. The vote wes 22 to 4. The bill provides that whenever any person | shall be nominated for office by pe tition the signers of the petition | \ must declare that they are bona fide | supporters of the candidate and that | they have not aided and will not aid in the nomination of any other can-! didate for the same office. How ¢ to Find ind Out. Fill a bottle or common your water and let it stand t hours: a sediment or settling in an unhealthy condition of the kidneys; it it | Stains your linen it is evidence of kidney | trouble; too frequent desire to pass it or pain in the back is also convinciag proot that the kid Order. evs and bladder are WHAT TO DO, > knowledg ilmer’s Sw dy, atism, pain dder and so every wish in c in the back, kic every par ssages. & corrects 1 nd scalding pai f | following the use: of liquor, wine > or | beer, and n npleasant necessity of otten | during © | the extr: sct of Swame the h ‘ine tle anda at | DUVALL & BUTLER, RM LOANS. We have the an | Ditehford visited with Miss Mary e r be county. Call on us = Butler Sunday. ever offered in the county ce 3 abe ‘Powell pinbeand whores 3 of tr + Oland last-week. 4 Several young people of this place | attended church at Papinville Sun- anal | day night. Dasx | sult, my friend, of | country of borrowed plumes, | Vest.” | nounced of which ia dropsy. | being but 36 years of | from the death of his wife about out of | BUTLER MISSOURI, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23 1899. PIONEER IN EXPANSION, LOUBET IS PRESIDENT, Senator Vest Says the Devil Has that Honor. | The French Assembly of Deputies and Washington, Feb 17.—He was standing in the rotunda of the capitol. His thoughts ran riot his mivd was big with the greatness of it all, was Senators Elected Faure’s Successor at Versailles this Afternoon. Paris, Feb. 18.—M. Loubet was elected president of the French re | public succeed late Felix and and he sought relief io to the | words directed to the first one that | Faure, by the assembly of deputies | approached jand senators tuis afternoon. The two leading candidates w ere | M. Leubct, moderate republican, and M. Meliue, “Why should not this couptry | take up the white man’s burden? | Look at England; look at her prog conservative. The re | Loubet is 61 years old anda law- pg the yer by profession. He entered pub pioneer in the colonis Wi * life as mayor of Montelimart. Tx can take the Philippines, occupy |15876 he became a member of the them, teach them bow to govern| chamber of deputies His present | (USEC properly and then with | distinction makes of interest the fact | that he voted for the expulsion of rel best governed on the globe. her be po draw, and’ “And when you get through look- ing at England, just take a squint | at the deyil I don’t like zious orders from France teveral | years ago. He was, hewever, iucon to roba | sistent enough to secure the exemp but be | tion of the Trappists in his depart- was the true pioneer in that busi | ment from this harsh treatinent. ness. He got too bg for heaven, | became a member of the senate in expanded, occupied and colonized | 1885 and minister of public works in hades. According to the best in-| |the Tirad cabinet in 1857 The} He may | | portfolio rewaised in his bands only | | four months asked tne visitor | Ta 1592 Loubet became | His cabinet went Pasema revelations. formation he is there yet withdraw, but’’— “Who was that?” as the last speaker walked away pieces in the “I don’t know,” listener, Last month be “but to me be looks like Senator | was elected as presidest of the sen ate Premier. to said a CONGRESSMAN CRAWFORD DYING. Nhe fact that Loubet was opposed the bitter ene» mies of Dreyfus, indicates that he is regarded as favorable to the revision | by the anti Semites, Texans Assure Him His Little Children Will Be Taken Care Of. Washington, D C., Feb Congressman John Walter Crawford of the fourth district of Texas, is lying at the point of death at Provi dence hospital in this city. Very little hope of his recovery is enter- tained. He is suffering from a com plication of disorders the most pro For days he has been in most excrutiat ing pain. The breakdown of Mr Crawford, who is stilla young man, age, dates lof the Dreyfus case 17.— THREE CAILDREN BURN, They Had Been Rescued, bur Ran Back Into the Fire. Pise Bluff, Ark., Feb. 18.—News just reccived here telis of the burn- ing of three Phoenix, Desha county. They were two boys and a gir!, ravging in age from & to 12 years. Their father is named Banister. About 12 o'clock Thurs day night his house caught fire He children at dren in safefy from the house. They were asleep bowever, when | he cariied them out, end when plac | three months ago. They were very devoted, and her loss was particular |ly hard on account of the family of four little ones left without a single ie on the ground they ran back into | female relative on either the mother s | |the house. or father’s side who could bs calle j|ready to collapse. upon to take charge of them The forward to rescue his children. members of the Texas delegation } sir wives ae inte »wd that surrounte! the buraing | and their wives are very much inter . ¢ that = : € ye aing | D Hacker s in We hare tw ars McCorwick oa i ye f i’s illness .| building seizad tie agec atber ° s le f “ mee ested in Mr. Crawford’s illness be 3 & j hounds wi lers, Reapers and Mowers | cause of the sad circumstances of held bim back. to the dying | his little family will be taken care of Be the worst happens to him. Mr. | | Crawford made his wi'l to | After the destruction the crowd that was helpless to save. of the Bucklen’s Arnica Salve 1 off, the children’s The Best Salve in the world fo r| we ro taken from the ashes cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, | cooled P| | rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapt ped | grave * | hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin ‘the red iles | Sper —— eruptions, and positively cures p or no pay required. It is guaren- {teed to give perfect satisfaction or| Young Hunter Fatally Weur Mo., Feb. Sedalia, | Camp yesterday, was fatally wound | ed. The barrel of his shotgun burst knocking out one eye and fractu Medal for Helen Gould. Washington, Feb. 15.—A bill wa | reported from the military affairs | ¢ | committe and passed by the senate | | to-day extending the appreciation of} Rey Shulenburs pee lied fae eee i | congress to Miss Helen Gould for) j,; appointment at Mt Zion Sunday. | during the late M Mary Pontius, of Pieasan that a gold) Gap, visited with Miss Mary Buatle: to her ilo tay- Hut Items. patriotic services war and providing medal be presented | President. | day night -was & success. Mr Kaufman has rented Dr Lus farm for this year. Mrs Moler is on the sick list. — Sam Starr visited at Joseph k k L-e’s Friday Ou ir tax collector was around th week Carver has rented Mr Requa’ PERCIVAL, MISSOURI. ph Lee is on the si¢k list. | Loubet | | ress and prosperity and ber yj eoples | received 453 votes against 270 for} | —the happiest, must couteuted and | Meline. He! sueceeded in caryiug his three chil- | The house was just | Banister sprang To} re enter meant certain death so tke his young family, and have conveyed The burning timbers fell on the} Sprnce items. ot s aee man assurances that| three young ebildren and their fear-| Thereisag Mec ee el ful cries sent thrills of horor through | house was completed and the dying embers | remains | They | salt} were buried side by side in a church | aaa ee doa the plantation where | weel 18.—Jobn money ‘refunded. Price 25 cente| Ransdell, a young Benton county | per box. For Joa by H. L Tucker | farmer, while huating near Cole; ° rmg be party at Airs Laskey’s Tues- | PY, ed Effie Russell and Bertha! NO 15 Se SOPOOPOOOPD CODOOOPHID OF POPOCOPRIIOT HHO SOOO, = OFFICERS N. THOMPSON, Unt We beg to off apart or all your account feeling that we canassure depos- itors all the advantages arising from experience, prudence and Vigilance. tra E x Dd. "our services for ot '¢ FARMERS BANK iz 900000008 O0seeernrens pensesnonens PO DO00S 80 20-0090 OO COPOOOOOOOOS. POPOS DOES POPOPPIG IIS POPIOPPE SIS © | Matberry ltems. ¢ 5 | x ring and Mrs Dykeman spear” Chaar jsome better, but Mrs FH Shield not so well. L W Williamson wi | booming Times during John Dykeman has mo |corn during the last week. 27e to 29¢ per bust | HH Gray is haulin | sterdam at CASH GROCERY. ther | Corn is Are gettin the best hog wir lay an corn to Am- fencing ever made Ce ne Sat oo ies Ge pee re The valentine social at A J Dugan's b l was a grand success. After exchang- oe es th — econd car Saad bave ling valentines, some very comical meog | Rotten in last 50 days This is the ones, and reading them, they were ; | best f yw est fence ever iin Butler. iavited to a fine repast. At a late std : c end | hour all returned to their homes re- nei we eell it from 5c to Se rod less , erL od ‘ | joicing that they bad been peru 1 than others ask for theirs, and we |to be there. ‘Those present were s : | Misses Mary and Jane Braden, Gertie are sel.ing three times the fence o! Mauger, Lucy, Idaaud Mary Cowa all the others put together. We | ley Jenkins, “Maud Hacket, Nabbin i is « PA | Bard, Daisy Park, Grace Shefller and ascianeged re now as all wire |Minnie Bean; es cite Moc goods are adva fast We have Jno Comiford, Walter Wallace, Ollie 1. a | Walker, Frank I Chas Cowan SORE er ee oe Cee Fred Mauger a ; of | With at the I if you dont Mrs R_L Brad ased a : wwheratee a sa wel ate trio of fine wh rkey . As she isa good hand with fowls se it lots of it every day lall kinds, we expect to see a fine ast Sat- | white family next fall. Vogal & Co, a jof Benson, il, i turkey man this improving Steel Ranges Steel Ranges. time. a Nevada A G Walley, a resident of Bates Co 1 | asa cancer D ya . ii . |for forty odd years, had a public 19 untu you | vendue last Tuesday. He sold every ine Sea ng | bave seen ours. the LL Raner; it thing except four horses and thr is the prettiest, strougest, heaviest, cows. He and his three sons w 2 Lear to I | 2 i t and an aching | easiest managed and the beat cook he daed er caehneceber gare ts things 11 tooth are always hard to fill. ste ad detiaugSire jshape. They will rent they farmand| Jas Wright, wife aud sop, visited | ing range tat factured today. It | Mrs Walley and children will move : her near But! | ti . : | to comfortable quarters for the sum- Danner tant in of 11S Made by t est Stove Co. in jmer. Bi e urea to ee such good “at Willow Branct the world, ur ust almost a life men, but our loss may be his gain so understand our old frier nd Ww ' we wish him well in his move Ohawios : i time Ve you the Jewel M: Metz, « | widower, is a Range on a guarantee thal if it dows | Adrian. & g again adding his residence. It not cook than any etove or ispicious y the least, so Pasaare [tema f * = y e 5 ris, beware. “ain sae range you ever we will pay is te F late ont was John Stillwell i it early and late nth was the your woney back ¥, remember with his dogs, but so far we have not i ven. Ola time seen the wolf. J says hunting is ere a what we say, we ly warrant 1 vountiful Z good bat gam ; eS Si ; | to cook ag wel! but better than any Little Fred Roberts has been quite op will be ‘ with typhoi laria, but Dr jn this part of the country. eee aie oye Same warraut lliams, Post, Kan, is J Chareh has been ‘co on our Jewell Cook ves over any | attending ar says he will get " | alon; i : eks, but is be oth wag ar will sell either 1: WE Stillwell is Mul to you for lots soney than you | berry auc Miller is moving into s be r day and 3 . y, aoa ee : . naehniasage aay anc | can buy . 3 or ranges; sot Mrs Robert Clarke's property. t, but says sicknes at a stand The tax collector of Homer town- » , becaus st less but because i iiberry Fric fter- | § now. . ship will == Muiber y Fri lay after ie : : srseiyen satiefied jnoon of each week. Remember the t eb , Wife and S me is short. H. ROGERS. wh have a are profit. LW. Williar bought a fine | , see | horse at Mr Walley’s sale he F | Grandpa Lea 3 able ers of Ka McCormick. | agai n, Dic! kK. the people since ated Jp dood P Pr, od ee z Kretz zinger and Sam ‘Doutt at- year that skill vent and we are tended court at week. peepared to f si you with the ee = Gz McC repairs at about } f Come tn Joh Mer . for what Win Hall mad: get it; for City Wedne Art Gilmc over the co ‘this wee Is the effects of o-) week James Fr | pean: Ambr | Gilmore, Cha | Moore, Geo t| The Wigger t rjthe Moore | Star wishes these fou s were bre Merried an Actress, York, New maerri and M f have been working t wie G Quick and Hosie | hunting a oo s| | Haven't heard w actres ,, | ceeded in finc Thew been calling The weather! | for the little s again. eee s| Gatridge. Elsba: Prank Bewley-h frome his extended v