The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 30, 1899, Page 1

n 1 Semana ~ ler Weekly Times. BUTLER MISSOURI, THURSDAY MARCH 30 1899 NO 20 TEN VICTIMS OF TWO MOBS, Wholesale Lynching In Arkansas and Mississippi RACE WAR WAS THREATENED. negroes of Little River county are fecing in terrer from the state by dozens since the fact of the whole gale lynching of men of their race daring the last few days has become foown. It is certain that eight negroes have been lynched during the last few days, and the general jmpression is that every cne of twenty three negroes said to bave been implicated .o ~ ploy to -aasaacre | F qbites has met death The bodies of thess ne, 168 have been found jn the couaty: : Joe King, Ed Goodwin, Ben Jones, Moses Jones, Adam King, Jesaph Jones and unknown man. These dead of the regulators are jaaddition to Gen. Duckert, the slayer of planter James A. Stoek too, and the work of the mobs is gid to have been due to discovery ofaconspiracy, led by Duckert, to which, ac twenty three organize araco war, in cording to informers, blacks bad engaged. After the murder of Stockton, Dackert took to the thickets in Red River bottoms The citizens joined and begana eearch for him, but were uncuccecsful. After many hours he was forced to move because of hunger. Officers started at once with him to Richmond, the county seat. Before he was taken far, how ever, citizens overtook the officers and prisoner. He was taken from his guard and lynched, his body being left hanging. Another negro, Joe Kiog, remark- ed that Stockton should have been murdered sooner He was taken to the wocds and whipped, as was also John Johnson. Other negroes made threa!s, but nothing occurred until last Wednesday, when the dea body of Ed Goodwin was found hanging tow tree just across the Red River, from the Stockton farm, in Bowie county, Tex He formerly worked for Stockton and was chased across Mud Creek. Advices feom the vicinity in which ~Goodwia was lynched are that the | Woods across the river since have been found filled with lynched ne-| groes Ben Jones was yesterday found dead on Hurricane Bend, ) New Boston comes the news that doe King end Moses Jones were found hanging to trees at Horse / thoecurve. Another Jones is miss- The full truth ia not known and will not be for several hours Robbed the Grave. Astartliug incident, of which Mr. bhn Oliver of Philadelphia was the subject, is narrated by him as on. My skin was almost yel- W, eyes sunken, tongue coated, tin continually in back and sides, etite, gradually growing weak- by day. Three physicians given me up. Fortunately, a @advised trying Electric Bit- fand to my great joy and sur | fise the first bottle made a decided provement. 1 continued their use three weeks, and am now a well I know they saved my life, robbed the grave of another a.” No one should fail to try Only 50c per bottle at H. L. 's Drias Store. Poxarkaua, Ark, March 24 —The} pangiog to trees at diff-rent points and from | “I was in a most dreadful ; | | PITCHED BATTLE WITH OUTLAWS. | Fugitive’s Plucky Daughter Holds a Posse at Bay—Stoddard County Officers Cap- ture Two of the Clique, But Fear Additienal Trouble. Dexter, Mo, March 27 —A pitched battle near Bloomfisld, in Stoddard | county, between a Shenff's posse | and a band of fugitive outliws to day | bors of the gang andthe death of }their leader, Charles Hendrick: oo. | It was a thrilling fight, but none of | the combatants was pluckier or | braver than the daughter of Hen drickson, who, after her father bad | been shot down, snatched up his Winchester rifis and held the posse \at bay unti! she herself fell, pierced by a bullet To day’s battle was the result of an outrage committed in Fracklin | county several weeks since, whea an | inoffensive old man was waylaid by ja gang of young robbers, who de | manded to know where he kept his | noney concealed It is said the robbers tortured the [old man by burning his feet | fire until, in his anguish, he divulged | the whereabouts of his mouey. The | story of this incident aroused public jiudignation to such an extert that the offieers of that section organized & posse to capture the culprits The \efforts of Detectiye C. B. Booth | were finally successful. | The gang, consisting of Charles | Hendrickson, his wife and daughter land some four cr five young men, | were located a mile from Bloomfield, |where they had recently |Sunday morning Detective Booth, | with Sheriff Evans and a half dozen | deputies, made araid on the prem lisee, but they received a warmer moved reception than was anticipated | The women and men were armed | with guns, and they blazed away at the officers through every window | and door | They had a table in the room pi |high with cartridges, and the two women loaded the guns and handed |them to the men as fest as the be- | sieged party could use them | Finally, Sheriff Evans stormed the | house in force. The outlaws en | deavored to escaps. A bullet struck Hendrickson in the head, killing jhim instantly: led His daughter then | snatched up his gunand began firing | om the officers. She was soon shot dowr, and then the ecame frightened, aud were soon | captured | Inthe fight Detective Booth re- | ceived three slight wounds, and the | clothing of seme of the deputies was | riddled with bullets. | Hendrickson’s wife managed to \gend a telegram to friends in St. | Clair, Mo, and the officers are pre- pariog for more serious trouble. It other outlaws | of the gang who will attempt a res- | cue of the prisoners. | The two young men captured by the posse assert that several mere bers of the gang are still at large, and that the officers who participat ed in to day's fight will be called to account by the prisoners’ friends. 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The government will intercede by jforce, if necessary, it appears, to |save the | lives of the American fili-| | busters now held prisoners by the | | govern nent cf Guatemala. | | The first news of the intention of ithe goveroment to send a gunboat | to the shores of Guatemala to inves- tigate the circumstances surrounding ths capture and imprisonment of the quintette of Kaneas City soldiers of fortune in the stockade prison at | Liviogstone, came at 10 o'clock Sat- urday morning to Jobn L Peak ex- minister to Switzerland, from John Hay, secretary of state. It telegram and read; ©“ Machbias ordered to Livingstone No Stamps required on deposits drawn at counter esti PODOOSHODOLD REPUBLICAN ITS FIRST CHIEF, | Ex-Goveraor Fletcher, Who Died Yes- terday, Was a Missouri Aboli- tionist, Washington, March 25.—Ex-Gov- ernor Thomas C Fletcher of Mis to investigate reported imprisonment sourt, who died here late this after of American citizane, aud legation | 2008 ® the age of 72 is duly informed No advices |the picturesqu> figures of Missouri He was ths first recon struction governor of Missouri and was nominated without knowl edge in 1865 while with Logan on the Atlantic coast The ex governor was b was a| was one The reasipt of the telegram was! joycus news to the friends of Gus| Flournoy, Dalrymple, Chre H. | Guthrey, Brett and Jobneor, the| five uvfortunates It now appears} that the men have been his Her- Mo., rehant Ore cuaneum, in where his father Jefferson cc certain uvless already executed they never 5 will be shot. Consul Heith still de- jand a slave holder. Not withstandiog clares that the Gautemalan people | thir, po ae eee | aboliti Thi will do the’ prisoners no harm and| staunch aboliti While he was @ young that the httle republic is not looking : for trouble with the United States, sues se eeenugs et sere ORD which might result from an execu | & - tion of the prisoners jlar and he was first appointed and elec lerk of fersor Dhethedt cows .ottanied Ga the | *fterwards elected clerk ef Jefferson United! States dof eheglight of tate CeCe 12, 5= Lome be filibusters was given by J. A. Kirk beeen Jeep a 5 pee patrick, a Kansas City civil engineer, | the outbreak of the enlisted in chGautamals ta Newt the union army, in which hs rose to was a mano h ers. His boldness made him popu law, at war who fled out Ocleans and told a thrillivg story of | snerank = 2 Jos ee Se thy | ears of his service was spent in his arrest and confizement ina fil prison and of his eubsequent release, which had granted when he promised to leave the country. | Libby prison | After his retirement | Fletcher resumed the jlaw and became a Pacific Three Lynched in Mississippi. |coungel. Ten years ago he estab Jackson, Miss, March 24.—O. R. | lished his home bere, where he prac- Reed, Minor Wilson and Willis|ticed vefore the court of claims and Boyd, colored, accused of attempt/the various departments. He was to kill planters by a roadeide ambush | gix feet tall and had snow white hair } ex Goveraor of railroad been practice in Sharkey county, were last night |and beard. Several weeks ago h taken by a mob from the castody of | was stricken with paralysis and from the Sharkey county Sheriff at Silver |the first his recovery was City, while being taken from Yazoo | : |county, where they were captured, | Their bed | Mrs. Plainfield, ners ee were in the statement that sne weighted and dropped in the river. |caugbt cold, which settled on her Afier several white citizens resid-|inuogs; she was treated for a month jing near Midnight had been shot at) by ber y phys:cian, but grew from ambush, last week, 200 whites , ¥OF&° : d ber that she 1 “yee ® ___ | hopeless victim of consumption and exnembied Irom vero sng Sharkey | that no medicine could cure her. Gouaties to hunt down the ambush | druggist suggeeted Dr King’s New ers. Two negroes, who were re | Discovery for consumption; she garded as the ringleaders, escaped | bought # ottle and to her delight Many others were arrested, but al]|found herself benefited from first : R |dose. She continued its use and were, discharged except the three | ire, taking six bottles, found her- negroes killed yesterday. The Sheriff .¢1f sound and well: now does her of Sharkey county endeavored to|own housework, and is as well as take the three on the steamer Rescue | she ever was. Free trial bottles of Janae : to the county seat for trial this Great Discovery at H. L.- . i |'Pucker’s Drug Store. Large bottles | 50c and $1. | Agninaldo fo Command, Remarkable ‘Rescue. Michael Curtain, were sho’. | | jand | was a | Bring Back the Soldier Dead, Washington, D.C., March 23 The Roumania has sailed from Sa ago with the remains of 554 soldiers who were killed or died in Cuba, and 120 from Perto Rico. The Rouma- nia will arrive in New York on Tuesday, where arrangements will be made to send the remains of sol lowing isa dispatch received from General Otis at 8:55 this morning. It was filed at Manila on Monday night: | “Manile, March 27, 18y9—Adju- \tant General, Washingtor: MeAr- diers to their former homes, when /thur holds Marilla; severe fighting requests ere made or the remains | to day and our casualities about 40 are unknown they will be sent to/The insurgents have the Arlington National Cemetery | pridges, which impeded progress of A salute will be fired from Gover |trgin and artillery. Our troops met nore island when the Roumania/ the concentrated insurgent forces on arrives. northern lines commanded by Agui- Jefferson City, Mo. Merch 24 —|naldo in person and drove with con- Senator Wilson’s bill, relating to| siderable slaughter. They left neer- | usary, was passed by the house yes-|ly 100 dead on field and many pris- \terday by a vote of 101 to9. The | oners and small arms were captured bill provides that it shall be a misde Tbe column will press in the | meanor to ell or transfer s usurious | morning MISSOURI. | note without notifying the purchaser | Council Bivfie, Ia, & 3s s of ite usurious character. he pen-| Thres weeks @ ¥ a the cheapest money to Io ! Bs a ie a ine of S160 to | Council Blut Call on us POSOOS HOSOOHO SOPOT aia pr $500, mprisonment for 30 to 90, street: Grete. = 3500, oF 1p | $5,000 in $350 Hec i _— ee a bills | reward for its Stic. Tat jintrodauced by Senator Wilson allign unknown man returned $4 |designed to make life unhappy for!saying that ® messenger bey bad |the “money shark.” ag the package. | made abolition | doubtful. | “ Washington, March 27.—The fol-| destroyed | POPP PIOHOD HIP MOO) HEROS ROS 7 é DER Sta St PER\ LOANS MONEY BUYS NOTES, RECEIVES DEPOSITS. FARMERS BANK, Virginia items. the evening v spent in a social what we hear the Virginianesay is, Wey that did nor to the happy ra » fwe hear ‘em say e were many beautiful ppens yeu. J sents. A GUES Uncle John Hendersor who was! Pleasant H was born in Line ‘on the sick list is outagain nty, Iowa n 1844, died Marck | Bert Orear returned to his home in) 24th, 1*9 He came to Mo., in 1867 K C Wednesday of last week. lhe being « 3 yearsof age. He Ww Kennedy and uncle James Me- | t& ight ar er of yearr Mannis of near Passaic, visited his | He was ito Miss Annie How mother, Mrs Wm Drysdale, last week. | ¢!/, Jan. To this union were Chas Hensley 1s buying hi , four of whom haé Fred Heckador ore him. Mrs TS Har of Linn county, 1, Pred and Delbert stil day. Miss Nor Mr Hill has passeé been visiting the families sore afflictions; tie Jackson for some tim whom he ad 1ed home with them. in her educetion, 1 several of « died ars ago, just when she ew farm i was most cor rt to him. About one week year ago 1 Arthur, in try te s the Miam k was drowned farm as soon as the snow: BF nkins is having 1 Pleasant Hills was spent in try remodeled; John Nance is doing the | ing to¢ ! fellowmwan, and set a good example for his children. y Park sp ast week in| He wasag i worker in the church with her at Mrs H H/|and Sabbath sel He tried te build up his Master's cause on earth Gordon Wallace at K C last week, | he took h ny rwith him te the Miss Sadie Whinnerv will teach | ballot box and voted as He would the summer school in the Nestlerode | had he been here in person, for the distr’ i of his f woman. His neigh Dr Kimble Hill of Do pod w rise 1» in the Sab tended the funeral of = sehe iurch and work @& To bist nory by the writer Pieasant Hill, John Hutebinson, the firm of Culver & with his fine hearse Sunday. he nder cora vund the heart, to speak the wordr r part. undertaker for Campbell, was Sabbath. al of Pleasant Hi Jas Moss’s infant child died Sab- { eit cuermee bath at eleven o’cloc will be eberished Jas Crook of Amc » Was in our eave face. city Saturday buying poultry. AAROR The Cumberland prea r of But A Word to Farmers e Ret ler failed to attend the funeral of Hill last Sabbath for We would who intend t ze the 2 ‘ this season to plant » small acreage of east of But , visit- of sweet corn this «pring, #0 as ta a, Sabbat! have green corn fodder to feed te ta new poul- tummer when the to get short, as they sel irst of Augrast tation ape ey agi ea Bg 2 egins to dry boos as salle J fos up until regu!ar feeding time We " zs know by experience the value of thie = feed to mak ss give good rie ev Wm Coulter's two drut eee : —_ aad Waseda baua- cea ae We think t 201 advice, whetb- 5 you intend patronizing @ creamery t the | or not. ll hold Virginia Sunday, April i6th, at 11 a.m. and at 2:30 p. m. and Monday night; Tuesday night Mult @ meetin How ‘to Find Out. verry. Mrs L E Bailey of Prot tion Park, Staten Is! > oe York, and Mrs Rot 4am Mo, dist. presi- dent, w ak. The Vi a postoffice eled last week; the change is a good one. W D Orear was not feelin Monday. He gets weaker all Gas Rape, who has been was remod- sick some time, is improving slowly. Married, at the home of the bride's | parents, Mrand Mrs J J Coffin near | Butler, March 16that 7p. m. Arch; | McElroy and Miss Maud Coffin. The} | bride and groom entered the room while the wedding march was played by Miss Ella Coffin, Davidson officiating. The bride was attired in cream woolen goods trimmed in lace |and satin ribbon, while the groom wore a suit of black. After the cer- emony and congratulations the guests assembled in the dining-room where a nice supper was prepared of h ail partook freely. ito go otter get up manr Rer BAKING ROYAL POWDER food more delicious ana wholesome Poe Sora SKINS