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WEN WALK OUT OF JAIL. a “aiy Prisoners Make Their Escape. Mo. April 6 —This morn- o'clock William AH Wy «h watchman, went to the jail and found the doors the four prisoners that bad ned therein gone visits the court house ant op his rounds, and be xs nob DUTDIDS as usual He minutes before, and his suspi qero aroused when he could jt There had been no noise ot hia attention, however. of the men are murderers— Wade, who killed Alex Scha peighbor, # year ago last Sep pear Excelsior Springs, as a i of a line fence quarrel, and Clevenger, who, wh le under ‘efigence of whisky and mad ie shot and instantly sel Allen, « rival, and whi trying to kill the young Jennie Oleveager, shot her , Della Clevenger. The ball jn the young lady’s brain, ‘tbat she bas lived so long has considered very remarkable gedy occurred in a school pear Missouri City December while the minister was gthe closing prayer of a re- ga meeting - other two men who escaped orge Wilson and B_ B. Stock They were arrested six weeks and at once indieted for entic tao gitls to prostitution in the Hb part of Clay county. Wilson Stockton came to this county cust Tennessee several months Clevenger had also lived in part of Tennessce, and it ght they may try to get to ure Disease is to Cure the Blood suffer with boils carbuncles,old sores ourblood is diseased, Dr. Thur- Syrup is guaranteed to cure Itisa boon for Biel s What Is the Matter? don't know what is the matter ih busine gi business man of a neighboring in our office the other day. He frepublican, too. ‘‘We are doing volume of trade, but prices are low that we haven't made a cent ‘93. And there is nothing ia ty. It wou't pay taxes and b expense of carrying it; and if trytoeell it nobsdy will have | Ihave been trying for a year to Plabusiness house that cost me 8.000 in cash a few years ago, and pbest offer I can get is $12,000. losses in the depreciation of my Mpertyamount to more than all tad debts during the past five ie, and yet we have suffered more Mo usual in that respect on ac of the stringency of the “Iam holding on to the dedge,” writes a correspond from Kansae, “hoping that free !” exelaimed a promi- ” eng to the jail be saw the| the light not more than j | | | fruits, jellies, pickles or cateup are @ more easily, more quickiy. more ——<.. Sealed with Refined Paraffine Wax than by any other method. Dozens of other uses will be found Refi ned “ Paraffine Wax in every household. It is clean, tasteless and odorless—air, water and acid proof. Get a pound cake of it with a@ list of its many uses a from your druggist or grocer. Bold everywhere, Made by STANDARD OIL C0. se 4 FIVE MEN ARE NAMED. President Appoints Delegates to ment Congress. Washington, D OC, April 6.—The secretary of the stats has announced the eonstitution of the United S ‘ates delegation tothe disarmament con- gress, which will meet at The Hague ia the latter part of May. The dele- gation consists of Andrew D. White, United States ambassador at Berlin; Mr. Newel’, United States mini to the Netherlands; President Low of the Cclumbia University, New York; Capt. Crozier, ordnance department United States army, and Captain A. T. Maban, retired, U.S. ter N. Mr. Frederick Holls of New York will be secretary of the delegation The American commission as a whole is regarded as an exceptionally strong body, being made up of men well knowr, not only in publie and political life, but in the world of let ters and international effairs They are all men of scholarship, fine lin guists and these attainments helpful in @ congress representing the na tions of the world, conducted under he diplomatic usage which makes French the accepted language. Notice of Final Settlement. Notice is hereby given to all creditors, and allothers interested in the estate of © L Koe- ger. deceased, that I, Augusta A Mallon, (formerly Augusta ‘A Koeger,) adminis tratrix of said estate, intend to make final settlement thereof, at the next term of the Bates Count bate court, in Bates county, state of Mi to be beld at Butler on the Sth day of Ma i, AUGUSTA A. MALLON, Administratrix. 19-4¢ Girt Goes With Bim. Atlantic City, N J, Apri: 5 —Miss Belle Shane, aged 22, a resident of Morristown, Pa, and now a visitor in this city, declared her intention to day of accompanying Captain An drewas on his next voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to attend the Paris Exposition. Miss Shane read in the papers a few days xgo that Captain Andrews was his seventh aud last voyage ina 17 foot dory. She sought out the Captaia and pro- posed that if he woud enlarge his boat to such a size as to give her suitable accommodations she would bear the expense of building the boat. Miss Shine said today that she had arranged with Captaia Andrews to sail with him on 17 from this city. She said that it was her ambition to be the first woman to cross the Atlantic in a small boat. Captain said that he would be delighted to have her ac- to make June Audraws } Disarma- | JACKSON'S SCOUT. | | ae Wounded Sixty-seven Times) | New Haven Register Maj. Lamar Foutaine, who arrived | jin the city yesterday morning, is| | probably one of the most interesting | | veterans of the Confederacy. He is| | the only representative of Camp Sam | Cammack of Coahoma county, Miss, | jand during his stay in the city will| | be the guest of Capt. John Milledge} on Trinity avenus Major Font | | nearly all bis nnd the story of | |his adventures in al! | world sounds jike romances. He the Russian army | during the Crimean war, and at the |siege of Sebastopsl was decorated by Czar Nicholas with the Iron Cross j of Houor fer daring bravery during |the battle At the time of the mem orable charge of the Light Brigade of Balaklava, Maj Fontaine was 16 miles away, but could hear the guns and see the smoke of that famous battle. After leaving the Russian army he traveled about the world in company with an uncle, but was living in the south at the opesing of the Civil war, and eslisted as a private in the 10th Mississippi Rifles, but later was transferred to Co. K, 18th Missis sippi Regiment. While a member cf this regiment, ie August, 1861, he wrote the well knewn “All Quiet Along tho which has since copied all over the werld He began his war work with the Confederate army as scout and cour ier for Gen. Stonewall Jackson. He served in the same capacity with Generals Stuart acd Johnson, and briefly with Gen. Les. He took part in twenty seven pitched battles, fifty-seven skirmishes and over 100 individual skirmishes, in which blood waz shed. Although he was buta private in the ranks, he was at one time intrusted with a carte blanche order on the treasury of the Confed- served in poem, Potomac,” been widely erate states. He was known in all branches of Confederate service as the best mar with rifle or He was wounded sixty-seven times, and thir teen times bis lungs were pierced. Five times in the course of the war he was reperted dead. Oa two oc casions he was able to look apertures in his flesh and watch the beating of his own heart Maj. Fontaine has kept a complete diary for nearly forty years and this in iteelf isan unusually interesting work, comprising a number of vol umes, and containing much valuable revolver in either army. information He also has many documents signed by prominent officers of the Oonfederate army beariog testimony to bis remarkable markem “Yes “it would se Fontaine last night, us though I bad life on the t of my and Decorated bythe Czar. | i | ve bas been a soldier | parts of the! Somehow and somewhere, among the rucscles and joins, 2. RHEUMATISM = 2a ST. JACOBS OILS IT PENETRATES, SEARCHES, DRIVES OUT. —_—_—_ ‘THE MISSOURI STATE BANK, Parp CAPITAL, - - - $55.000 00 Reeeives Deposits, Lons Money, Issues Exchange and does a general Benking Business. The patre nage of Mer- of Butler, Missouri. chants, Farmers, Business Men and the pt lie generally is solicited, promising strict attention to business and a safe | 1 Depository for funds. ——DIRECTORS.— John Deerwester, Charles R. Radford, Wm. KE. Walton T. C. Boulware, T.J3.Wrignt, 3. Jenkins.” Booker Powell, Frank M. Voris, J.M_ Christy 8. R. JENKINS, Ciishier. Wm. E. WALTON, President. | OF BUTLER, MO., Is now Loaning Money on Real Estate at Lower Rates than ever before offered in Bates County, and invite ever one desir. ing to borrow to call and get our low rates before makiog loans We have the money on hand in Bank ready to pay out as soon as papers are signed. For first-class choice loans we are making at SIX per cent interest and not charging any commission. ——> POLL TAX SCHEME KILLED. Arres poned. | Jefferson City, Mo. April 6 —Gov.| popularity. Always cures Stephens’ poll-tax proposition was) SICK HEA DACHE, knocked to smithereens this morn-| sour stomach, malaria, indig Senator McClintic submitted : a committee report, recommending | that the Senate joint and concurrent resolution, providing for a poll tax a3 a prerequisite to voticg, do not pass. He then moved that the reso- lution be indefinitely postponed, his motion carrying by a unanimous vote. Governor Stephens suggested that a poll tax of $1 per head be im- posed, and be regarded as a necssary qualification to vote. He estimated that about $50,000 a year could be raised as revenue for the state in this manner. The Senate joint and concurrent resolution, providing for the removal of the state capital from Jefferson City to St. Louis was also indefivite- ly postponed. The Senate also indefinitely post- poned the Senate joint and concar- rent resolution, providing for a con- stitutional convention in September. The Senate joint and concurrent resolution, providing for the repeal of the section of the constitution reducing the rate of taxation to l5e, | when the assessed valuation of prop- erty exceeds $900,000,000, was also ing. and all bilious diseases. BESET BY WOLVES Two Canadian W Pembroke Johan Int ) Obs Bourke, of Mattawa, the Dumoine about b Des Joachims, he large pack of w olves: the wolyes to have matches in his pocket, so stripped the bark from of berk This pieces | wolves . kept three miles distant, | Whe Walton Trust Co., | disease by the time ly use of Several Other Propositions Indefinitely Post-| Tutt’s Liver Pills, an old and favorite remedy of increasing s- tion, torpid liver, constipation | \TUTT’S Liver PILES left Mackey’s Station for Otter Lake on last week, and when f way and forty miles above was chased by a He says he managed to get up a white birch tree, which was soon surrounded by Mr. Bourke happened the tree, ignited it, and dropped the lighted down among the the ravenous} | animals away from the tree, but did | not drive them off, they merely keep ing out of resch of the falling bark Mr. Timothy Tomeny, a resident of Sheenboyo, was in a camp about .. CHARGED WITS EMBEXALEMENT Seventy Theusand Dollars Sani to Be the Amonat Takes, Kansas City, Mo. April 6 —“San- tiago Morphy, alias “Mexican” Morphy, wanted in the City of Mex | ico on the charge ef embezzling | $70,000 from the National Bank of tl Mexico, was arvested at the Strat Ul ford Hotei in this city noon by two es} s after tectiyea Morphy attempted to escape, but br was leveled at his nitted quietly when a revolyer head He was taken to the Central Station, joking with bis captors on the w and locked up Morphy was 2 the strength of a te chief of polize of New Orleans, which place he escaped on J be 23 last, and will held awaiting the arrival of officials from that city. Three weeks ago Chief of Police Hayes saw Morphy walking on one |of the down town streets here. Be \lieving him to be the much wanted | Mexican, Hayes the | New Orleans officials for particulare, j keeping Morphy under surveillance lin the meantime. The answer was |received to day that $500 was offer- led for his capture by the National | Bank ef Mexico | Morphy had been located at the | Stratford, detectives Schultz and Sanderson were dispatched to |} bring him in | dinner. telegraphed and Morpby was still at Schultz kept guard at an | outside door while Sanderson busied | himself at the clerk’s desk. y} | Morphy finally emerged and pass. ing Sanderson, walked out onto the street. The moment he saw Schultz, Morpby turned and ran back into the hotel and up the staire to the second Sanderson | was there at the same time and lev- \eled his revolver at Mexic -_|bhead. Morphy surrendered grace- fully. He bad no weapon. On the way to the station, Morphy joked and chatted with bis captors. When brought before Chief Hayes and shown the telegram from New Or leans, he said simply: “Boys, treat me right. to good treatment.” He was led to acell in the hold- | over. After bis capture in New Orleans Morphy made a desperate fizbt in the courts to escape returning to Mexieo The courts ruled against him, because forgery, with which he is charged, is an extraditable offense, and on January 23, Major Solores, a Mexican officer, started for the depot to take him back to Mexico As they walked along the two were surrounded by a crowd of Morphy’s friends. Solores was stunned by a blow on the head, and Morphy es- caped. Morphy is well known smong American turfmen, and it is said that be owes his escape from New Orleans to some of his racehorse friends. landing. the o'8 I'm used he en ae Pare ee spent the m¢< > : j where” Ms: | A Prophecy of Cromwell's Future. Harper's Magazine It is said that one day when Crom- will succeed nex year. Then ea sell my property, but if the id standard continues beyond the ihe aoe seer Bs sega pe battlefield. My life has been rather pecien uns atte Atlantic, esC3) eventful in many a way, and I thiok i ing in a emali cockle-shell. | hea ; é eee Bauer ce I bave had a few interesting expert indefinitely postponed. Bourke was to remain over night, | and awaited the arrival of his friend. | At last he shouldered his rifle and} election Iam bankrupt.” This aes cae ences s well was a mere lad, as he was lying worth $30,000 in town prop Enipalle etages > Ot Nese — “The e ts I have saved Hidden Peau went oat to meet Mr. Bourke. ee on bis bad in a melancholy mood, « eee temmuny Isude, Sad cre ie ee E ae Gicatl Balm ia lett ar, acd while they had not gone, tax when be pees |gigantic spacter appeared to him shouts for help, ard burried to the scene. He found Mr. Bourke up the tree and the wolyes surrounding it. ifthe gold standard continues a pauper. “In our eountry,” ites @ correspondent from Arkan- and said: “‘Theu shalt be the great- est man in England!” Heath says it wasadream; Lord Clerendon and Mr. Tomeny did seme effective| sir Philip Warwick speak of it asa a cleanser, soother and healer of the diseased membrano. It is not drying nor irritatiog, and does not prodace sneezing To toast ita trial size is may be interesting and valuable, I care for them only for the sake of ray children. Is will be scmething In Egypt the custo: to hide their the lower part of In America the beau “carpenters are getting fifty saday,and farm hands eight larsamonth, and all wages are mailed for 10c or the large for 50c by Ely Brothers, 56 Warren Streot, New York Druggists keep it. Upon te leave them when Iam gone, and I have minaged to preserve them in good condition for the last thirty our women is hidden t work with his rifle, and while the | vision. But whether dream or vision, wolves were devouring the wolves|it made profound impression on be bad ebo: dead, Mr. Bourke escar-| the youth, so much eo that his father ed from the tree, and both set eut/ requested Dr. Beard—Oliver Crom- with haete for the camp. The wolves | yoi4 sehoolmaster—to flog him goon followed, however, but a shot severely for “persisting in the wick- from the rifle would bring down 8! .anegs of such an assertion” The wolf, then the other wolves, as i8 | fogging only deepened the impres- their custom, would stop to devour) gion He told bis uncle Stuart of the dead asimal, then go on in pur- | the phrophecy, and was warned that ' ee Wade, becauss we have no being placed into the nostrils it 4 spreads oyer the membraae and re One of gar regular repreeentatives | lief is immediate It is anagreeable bright bewspaper man who travels | CUr® Wamong the larger towns and Writes: “Conditions are not mithy. The trusts and combires throwing thousauds of people years.” Maj. Fontaice isa mas of distin- |guiehed appearance, aud wears completa uniform which was made especially for him to be wern at the of He is a civil and with bis two sous We Will Give You a $4 Watch Ifyou will show our publication to “your friends. Wedon’t want you to sell them anything The watch is made by 8 well- known American frm, in twosizes, children’s and adults’ nickel or gold plated hunting veterans is en- engineer on, gagedinb Meeityment. Hundreds of | een Seeieen ss Beat nee Rew (Oe ton, auit of the men. Io thie way thelis mes traitorous to relate it.” Bab iuees in every larze city’ have been | YO OY: a ere icine men reached the camp is eafety. when he had seated himself upon d by once tarrly well to do A parrot escaped from a drug | o Your Shoes as = : = a eo ' the throne of England he frequently “4 i = Z <i ee, .& powder for the feet. It he Frisco Sax ° nie . eurrence . 7 @who ace ‘doubling up’ in| store in a Missouri village, flew into wollen, smarting. nervous | spoke of the occurrence, and was San Francieco, Cal. April 6 —In erder to meet the opposition of two } - tle grecery acter. Horg Kong. — Names For the New Ships. es the sting out of corn atest comfort di fully persuaded ia his ows mind of ktre are many m-n of con-}@ church where the colered brethren : ite prophetic and supermjatural ehar- le ability, who not long ago! were holding a meeting, perched on @ good wages, wi now go to |the pulpit end sufveying the ce gregation, ebserved ina sharp voice - Itis ‘a cer , cata sa nor ured | FF Giaie ents In stamps. ms which are selling ! ; trade sugar refined ia y Provident Association room for daress Allen S. Olm- , + Trust has cut the price of a P Tis he WY” Some of the z the ar Trust has cut the p : Cent meal. There are good|‘ Tt's hot as hell mea . eT asl dae ee Washington, April 7.—The presi lanicn who are glad to work for | brethren jumped out of the windows, Maraday, and more whe feel; while many of the sisters fell faint-| ete The preacher sought refuge io| , 7. Grains ef Morphine, , April 6.—Charles; Ten edthe sew battle- dent bas auther: ships and armored cruisers to be - pour j. Thie decrease has been more: than met, and row, according to the pon eight or nine dollars ajing % | Rsetor, 2. years, swallowed 10} of Chroeicle, the tr bas notified | nemed the Pennsylvania, New Jer- * * Tho class of small the steeple, and was #o firmly wedg-| grains of morphine at a hotel here Ss ars oe deslra that it will not sell any cube! sey, Georgia, West Virginis, Nebras- hants, as a rule, are hardly led in it that they had to saw him | to-day with fatal results. He wasa t ka and California. or any other qualities of sugar to those who buy Oriental granulated. It is estimated that if there is no advance in present prices. consumers | of suger will save over $3,000,000 a ge, Galveston, year. jo \traveling salesman for a St. Louis __igaddlery house. His young wife Saath Seni about akon |and baby reside at Montevallo, this any in the/ county. He tried to kill himself in| ithe same way ab Montevallo about a their own: many are steadily | out- Money. I: is true, living was Socheap, but never was money dfor the average man to ac- ‘Mississippi Valley Demo- The six cruisers which are to be pemed after cities are to be called ‘the Denver. Des Moines, Chattanoo- Tacoma and Cleve See two girls*in grapes for Speer’s wine. Speer’s wires are unoexeelled by world. American Institute Farmers Club Send for our free il The Bradficid Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga. Report the wines of Alfred Speer, of Passaic, | Year AZO, but the doctors saved him - | He left a statement. New Jersey, the most reliable and his 0) Grape Wines superior to any in the world.