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MISSOURI BANK KOBBERY Four Crackamen Got OUsly a © Amount at Wellsville Wellsville, Mo, April 6 —Zour guen attempted a bold bank robbery here this morning between the hours ef 1 aad 3 o'clock. When night watchman Conard Mentz met one of the night trains he was accosted by | a strange man who asked to be al lowed to sleep in the calabooee. The request was granted. While he was wilocking the outer door three other men stepped out of the shadow in the rear. Throwing a sack ove: the | watchman’s head, they proceeded to} take him into a cell and lock him up} after binding and gagging him The/ bandits then found Sam Knipfe! on| the street, wandering around under the influenca of liquor, and after beating him into insensibility, they | took him down to the calaboose, | bound and gagged him and lo cked | him up. The coast being clear they proceeded to the bank. After pry- | ing open the front door they went} inside the railing. Placing explos ives in the key hole they touched it eff, but the shot did not open the outer door,and the robbers got only} @ lot of small change at the bank, not more than $5 broke open a small safe in the office of Barger and Shackelford, but took! nothing from it. After failing in all their efforts the bandits left town. Later in the morning persons pass ing the calaboose heard Mr. Mentz) eall and he and his companion were soon released. The watchman says} mall jand his brother called on Comptroll- | jreferred incidentally to the recent | = \ revival of the old charge of manage- The bardits then | J. TYGARD, ry. President. | THE BATES 6 a cessor te BATES COU AO 5 CAPITAL, $75,000. Bates County I IBUTLER, MO.: Estapuisnep Dec., 1870. — en PPP EEE HON.J. B. NEWBEBRY, Vice-Pres't. Cashierj OUNTY BANK, BoTLERNR, MO. NTY NATIONAL BANE. $| A Genera! Banking Business Transacted§ nvestmentCo., ; Capital, = = $50,000. § y to loan on real estate, at low rates. Abstracts of « ¢ to all lands and town lots in Bates county. Choice g ; rities always on hand and forsale. Abstracts of title q 2 £ ished, titles examined and all kinds of real estate § g papers drawn, 4 Hon. J. B, Newnerry, J.C. Cranx, Vice-President. Sec’y.& Treas. « $ dro. C. Hayes, Abstractor. S. F. Warnock, Notary. PRR BE FII ROLL IIIS SF OOF RAZ RAPP APPAR RAPA PPD A Washington dispatch has the! pouemine in relation to Gov. Steph- ens’ recent trip to that city: During | his recent visit here the governor | er of the Currency Dawes. A. H. Stephens bas banking interests at | Boonville, about which he wished to | consult the comptroller. Mr Dawes | ment by Governor Stephens during | this receivership of tho Fifth Na | ‘tional Bank of St. Louis. He said | that whenever a complaint of this) kind was received, no matter how trivial, it is placed on file and for He added that | the latest complaint in his judgment mally investigated. |wae rehash of unfounded charges the explosion accurred about three ; i - | made from time to time; that he had o'clock. | sees ie | made a similar investigation himself ——— | ‘ tnot long ago, the result of which We Make a long Story Shor-. j so Dr Thurmond’s Catarrh Cure Is the only ca- tarrh cure made that is sold—No Cure—N Pay. Ifyousuffer withcatarrh and colis in the head try it If it fails to cure you .t wilt was that he found, as his pedeces- sor, Mr. Eckles, also found, that the Sost'you nothing. Sold by H.L. Tuckes AGUINALDO MAY BE OLT. Report That Filizino Leader Has Been Antonio Luna is New Chief. posed.— The casualties in the Philippines | from February 4 to April 4, inclusive, as reported to the adjutant general De-| | receivership had been manage l not j Only efficiently, but in a | highly creditable to Governor Steph- lens The Comptreller stated em- | phatically that in his opidion there was no ground whatever for reviving | this old complunt, and took occasion | | to congratulate the governor on the excellent manner in which he had} duties of manner | discharged the exacting the receivership. are: Killed, 154 Wounded, 976.! Ag to politics, the governor re- Total, 1,160. | marked that he found in the east —— | great dissatisfaction with the situa- Manila, April 6 (10:45 a. m )—The} =” dicted Gnited States cruiser Charleston, which has been cruising slong the} west coast of Luzern, to the north, tion in the Philippices, and he pre-; that tho this administration there will meet strcng | disapproval in the next presidential course of genta boatia shore near Bagupan last Saturday to make soundings | The rebels opened fire, wounding a! United States officer. | The cruiser thereupon bombarded iP the town, the insurgents evacuating | it. There are that Agui leader, has | control of Manila, April 6, (6:20) persistent ramors to Cay naldo, the been supplanted in the Filipino effairs by General An tonio Luna, jer in-chief of the Filipino forces. Luna is describ: | ad as being a typical insurgent comman slligerent Prediction of Tem L. Johnsen- Cleveland, Ohio, il 6.—Tom I... Johnson, the widely known street car magnate, in an interview here, is yuoted as saying: “The time is going to come when people will ride free upon the street ears, run and operated by a munici- pality, the same as they now get their letters deliyered to them by/ the postal system. Mur con trol is as easily handled as Politics would not cipal govera- nental contro} de able to cut any figure In every] separate or i where the} servants of any, govern- nent or municipa are bject to] *xamination by public sen anieats where free access to the iuner work. | uption is]; hidden by-! sanery ¢ ways thet polities possible Rroom Corn rp S10 «a Ton K. C. Star. The price of b advanc- election He said that the free coin- age of silver issued isas strong with | the people as atany tim», but the organization of aud their extortions are creating great rapid trusts demand He atiou of the discontent iu the west and ing the attention of legislators. that the tax franchises corporations will af ford some remedy in shifting the burdens from the poor, avd believes that many ef the will recourse to this remedy asa the is confident for states have meaus of curtailing the work of The rusts governor explains that he bas | |net urged the retention of the enlist- | ed menin the Sixth Missouri, but suggested to the president that the officers desired active loubtediy recommended that the skeleton organization be made use the of service avd in provincial army of 35,000. Care You While You Wait. - with that horrible catarrh in the head, of smell or taste, catarrhal co sumption, ror ‘headache, Dr. Tharmond’s C tarrh Cure is sold nocure, no pay Price 50c and $1 00 per bottfe at H. L. Tucker’s. It will If you oe No Political Ambition. Chicago, April son outli 5 —Mayor Marri- i his future policy to-day as follows: “Not a backward step will be | taken o on the street railway franchise janes stion while Tam mayor if I can! help it. No franchise will be issued | j fo r more than twenty yeare while I} am mayor. This is absolutely the | imit. Compensati and such thio n, reduced fares gs are open for discus- is settled but the term of years as I am concerned e made my last campaign for r, and I want to say now that ily office I had in view when I may ithe ed $10 a ton ye ices arejran this time was that of mayor of now $110 to $150 a tov, compared; Chicago That is still the limit. I with $40 to $506 six months ago | have no further ambition, Politically. The advance was Cue to an agree-| There may be some changes in the ment among the leading dealers, | eity ball, but I will not take up who say it is justified by the short | pointments for some time.’ age of present supplies and by the} lateness of the spring. which is like- ly to result in a diminished area of | broom corn planted this year. Ba i; agi it w i 1 not} heal, it will cure frost bites, chilblains | and corn ascands50c. HL Tucker. } iA Clin WHITES LYNCH TWO NEGROES. | Another Black in Jail for the Murder of a White Farmer. Macon, Miss, April 6.—T. H. Clelland, a substantial and extensive farmer, residing in the northeastern portion of this (Noxubee) county, was found dead in his bed yesterday having been choked to To-day the Coroner held an inquest on the body, resulting ina verdict that Clelland came to his death at the hands of two negroes, Mose Anderson and Forest Jamison, | morning, death as x result of a grudge they had agains® him on eccount of a mert gage U'elland held on a horse be- ongin., to the negroes. After the Cororer’s verdict was rende:. J, about 2 o'clock thia after- noon, * mob of 75 prominent white mep a-sembled and took the negroes away irom ite Sheriff They placed he negroes on les, with ropes aroun t their necks, and, after tying |the o!her end to the limb ofa tree, the mules were driven from under the tr r negroes to die by strangulation. No attempt at disguise, whatever, was made by the mob, tue hanging being done by cool headed citizens in broad day- light. A third negro, Henry Cunning ird arrested on sus :ccomplice to the and is now in jail in this ham, was after picion of being a murder, place The body of Clelland was to day shipped back to his former | home in Kentucky. be baving moved | here from the north about one year avo f yas @ wor a g He was a wood ci y of Toledo, ss kJ ‘Che ney makes oath that he is senios partner ot the firm of F J ey & Co. ing business in the city edo, cc and state aforesaid, ay the sum ot ONE tor each and e edt H's Catarrh Cx ANK 5. CHEN and suscribed in my day of Dec. A. D. ’98 Sworn to before me pres e, this 6t presence, thi Jim, SEAL > A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public. ¢ is taken internally, the blood and mucous Send for testi- PEOPLE TESTIFY. Reference That is Surely Worth Looking Up. ton Man Who Tells His Friends What Has Done Him Much Good. We will tell you what will cure the worst i of & case of backache caused from the Kidneys. We will not only tell you, bat wil) we refer you to people in ail walks of life who Rave used Kid-ne We as Lowre: Oils with the best results. ad this statement from John sSS Carter St., whois a painter and Sterer by trade. He says: y right kidney was so great © to work at my trade. Icould rn oyerin bed without assistance; the y urine was highly color- n. I was RO relief, ave taken the soreness ont of my wh Kid-ne-oids have cured my I make this statement th: ney and liver troables may hat remedies to use to be enred.?? back kidney disorders, and sleeplessnes: up in wooden boxes which con- for about two weeks’ treatment | fty cents a Dox at Ladwick’s Drag ave cents abox; cure con- pstion, biliousness and coativeness. ptiye booklet mailed upon request by) John Morrow & Co., Chemists, Springseid, j Okie. J. C.CLABK, < ;1 had a frequent de-/ di-ne-oids and Mor- | ax with the very best of results; | ~ h were in a very} s but Yel-j w's Liver lax are small red granules! MeLaurin’s Watertov. Jackson, Miss., April 6-——Tte | State Democratic Executive Con tee met here to day for tt purpose | of deciding the time, place 1 (per of makiog nominations for state officers and of for senator. G ate pr | ositic a > & ibe &e hey always ay |been, by the Lexgisiature, istate cfii B ya Aug 23. MecLa ret v |loo of hia life aa “Private” Allen Stock is rbove par To Relteve Alashan Disti Washingior, D C.. April 6 —Act ing Seeretary Meiklej>:n statei day that owing to the stories of destitu'ion and wg in Alaska, which are being reeeived | at the department, orders have been issued to Captaio Abercrembie, com- mauder of the Copper River exvedi tion to hurry his departure as much | as possible A telegram received} to day from that officer indicated | that this exr ion would Jeave| Seattle on the 12h ics They | should resea Valdez on the 19th of | the month. The hop expressed | at the War Depar ont that the! prompt action of the military author | ities in expediting arrangements will kin the fore f 100n of that said debt, Administrator's Notice | that letters of ad | of Mary Borke ito the under- h. 189, by the Missouri after th preeluc Admir Notice is h istration = istrator’s Notice. | Court of E Al person the date o ever barred I st B D. V. BROWS, Adminictr Administrator's Notice og Prob | Court of Bates ( one All persors bar! fons the date of this. ‘path hey shall be forever - Tals ist dsy ot = er i, 1899. i - 8. HODGEs, } 21-45 Administrator. FAK. LUNGS? Lung Weakiiess, Coisumption, ME | ', Catarrh or Bronchitis Can Be Cured. of Treatment CORSISTLS 20 of Four 5 ep AF ANions a 2 s } (he Si ‘ecu System ~ -- x P ‘ i Y WI & s ely es Neve rT lung trow 1 ed Dr. M" r a Sys- v « 1 ¢ tl “ v tl v of tt od : } i Vew and : vorse ee “HE THAT WORKS EASILY, WORKS ARR CLEAN HOUSE WITH LPO h Arm Sewing Imprower Machines “« i. ‘ HE H OMe ADT TRY IT FOR 20 DAYS McFARLAND BROS. { ‘Hariess and Saddelry, Leather Tree Sadc. South Side Square Butler Mic. Read and See Whet ve Keep m Stee We keep everything that horse c where need Double wagon harnese from $10 to $% 8, $7.50 to $25; second bhad harness from $3 to #15. Saddles of al yles and prices, from the « cet tothe steer rke k a ¢ and nets. Harnes line oils ands and repair ¢ rness and saddles and ‘trade fet a new Lew = mo have the largest retail ba Doss e the Soutbw atts ness are all snails at bome. One hundred sets on band. Cor nepect and 9 prices. We wil prise you: ‘McFARLAND BROS. BU7LER, Mo.