The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 31, 1899, Page 5

OOOO OK HE IOOOIOOOOAS é gone into the furniture business at | ton. a pei a " astaae 3 a The Trues wishes him| Several loads of new corn have) McK BBENS, Our old friend J. W. Hall, has} Hay is selling at $450 and 35 a! | been brought to town. North Side of the Square. WOMEN’S SHOES, Nearly Two Thirds of your life is spent in your shoes. Mrs. O. W. Tuttle and children, of Butler, and Mrs. Geo. W. Jenkins and children, of Virginia, Mo., spent The hay crop this season eas brought thousands of dollars into! the county. u Th a too nice; they can’t fit too well; CAN east noe meg 1) Buy in the cheapeat market—that’ |Sunday in the city, the gueste ef Stylish, Serviceable, Low Prices. ) ai os oe ote —.. = way we do. It Jobn Ruble and mother.—Rockville| TB#* Foster base ball team made You can be suited in our sk lepartn Ww 1) buying five thousand pairs jel: te 1 set pasar Reflex. a mistake, they ought to have) eiclicntahoess HE a ae \ : : @, isit not a point for ‘ tackled the Butler kide. ylish shoes? lvery wanted sty leis here. Want f you to remember in buying one pair? Spare your feelings | Miss Mary Norton entertained a comfortable shoes? We have them. Want to the disagreeable task of looking at a pair of ill-fitting number of friends Monday evening @F rank LaFollett says he is getting |? save money on your shoe purchases? Our increas- shoes, spare your feet the pain in wearing tnem, spare at her pleasant home northeast of ready todo an active business this ing shoe trade testifies to our low prices. fall in crying puplic sales. Frank is one of the best men with mallet in Bates county. Butler. The party was given in honor of her cousin Miss Agnes Kaiting, a charming young lady from Kansas City. your pocket book the humiliation in kaowing that you rob. ped it. Our shoes look well, fit weil, wear well—this is the least we could possibly say about them. McKIBBENS, North Side of the Square, ALL CLOTHING AT COST. RR AR RARR ARP R RAPD AAA ALA D PD \ AAR APLAR ARP APA PRAP ALA PP PAP PD AIPIPPRA | | | Mr. Quigley is having a hard time | } building his electric street car line | at Nevada. The most serious ob-| stacle now is obtaining the righ of-| way On several streets DRYSDALE & KEASLING. 2OOCS Down at Carthage the other day Mrs. H. OC. Eyans, in smoking mosquitoes from a room in her house inhaled the poisonous fumes and was seized with a fit of cough- ing which caused the breaking of a blood vessel and she died almost immediately. BARRA RAR AR RRR ARR Rent ‘Max Weiner 14 1 The Free Press quoting P. H.| Holcomb as saying he recognized | Freeman is without foundation in| any particular. In fact, Mr. Hol- comb holds that the prisoner, in his opinion, does not bear the slightest resemblance to the man Freeman. : 7 $ 3 “i WEEKLY TIME Mrs. C. D. Fisk vi it di tie it 20TLER :. | a couple of days. Bet Prof. H. L Couchman made us a — very pleasant call on Saturday. He has been in Colorada and Nebraska for the past five months and reports LOCAL ITEMS | Mrs. Riddle and children left for ———ooee | Kentucky Saturday evening. aahee 37. H. A. Fowler, the young man ar- Tres telephone nu é = Nettie Hansbrough, of Se-|Crop prospects good through thejrested at the depot Tuesday morn- —_—_——_.._ ~_1_, | dalia, is visiting her nephew, County portions he visited. He had the|ing by Marshal Kelly, on a char, f Oi y. geo - your property a | Treasurer Andy Owen. Trves sent to Warrensburg where he} having insulted Mrs. Claud Maxey, ‘ ‘ | “Whevigaon with which Mreanan will attend the Normal the coming} was released in the afternoon the ete rain the fore part of | shot and killed Westbrook 30 years winter und also had the paper sent | necessary papers not being issued the week. | ago is now owned by Burley Lentz to his brother, O H. Oouchman, at|to hold him longer. Harper wasa For Misses and Children. r Boys and Youth's, # Satin Calf Lace 11 to 3... Helena, Mont. Prof. Couchman is one of our most promising young men. He is educating for a teacher andthe Timzs confidently expects to see him attain a high position in that profession at no distant day. Mrs. J. A. LaFollett bas sold her fine farm of 240 acres in Summit townip, 6 or 7 miles east of Butler, to our fellow townsman H. C. Wyatt. Mr. Jewett, son in law of Mr. Wyatt, will take charge of the farm on or about December Ist. Mrs. LaFollett and son, Charles, will locate in or about Bentonville, Arkansas, where they expect to engage in fruit rais ing. The many friends of Mrs. LaFollett, who is one of the early settlers of the couaty, will be sorry to learn that she has decided to leave the county, and in her going will carry the best wishes of the entire community in which she has resided so many years Capt. J. B. Newberry was shaking | Ofithinvcite. IE Aeaas Gonskaesa Al Fo jaods with friends in town Monday. | James Keep in the nt ace We vont The fair at Rich Hill opened Tues- | by him taken across the plains to dsy with bright prospects for suc- | Montana —Adrian Journal. 088. | Ex-Senator J. N. Ballard of Mont- rose, Mo., was in the city Monday om business. John P. Thurman, our efficient ddreuit clerk, made a flying trip to Joplin the last of the week nice appearing young man and stren uously denied having insulted the lady. al I th’s Satin Calf La Sizes 11 to13 3-2 FREAKS OF LIGHTNING. | Jas. Shubert of Summit township, 5 | bas about recovered froma severe sick spell. He was down with stom- ach trouble and for several days was }in a precarious condition, but Dr. | Boulware pulled him through all right. Walter Argle, who stole a fire mare from Delos Morrison at Nevada was caught at Clayten and brought back to Nevada. ‘he mare was re- |covered. Angle had just been re- | leased from jail at Warsaw when he | went to Nevada and stole the ani- mal. A. L. Fox’s Fine Barn Damaged.—k. A. Atkison’s Barn Burned and Two Trees at the Residence of Mike Curry Splintered. During the thunder storm which raged Friday evening the fine barn at the residence of A. L. Fox, four miles west of town, was struck by an electric current and the damage amounts to between $300 and $500. This is one of the finest baras in the county, was built a couple of years ago at acost of $2,500. The bolt struck the barn in the cupalo, and after cutting pranks in the roof, separated, a prong of the lightning going to the ground at each corner ofthe barn. In its descent two huge poste were shivered and planks split into kindling wood, Standing within eight feet of one of the slivered post was Mr. Fox's little son Leslie, who barely escaped being killed. The little fellow was badly stunned and for a short time was made totally deaf from the effects of the shock. A horse stand- ing in a stall was knocked down, but soon recovered his feet. The barn was full of hay, but fortunately did not take fire. The damage is fully covered by inceurance. The same evening the barn of R. A. Atkison, near the depot was struck, set on fire and burned to the ground. His loss, besides the barn, was a set of single barness,a set of double harness, a road wagon anda lot of feed. At the residence of M. J. Curry, in the northwest part of the city, the same evening and at about the same hour Mfr. Atkison’s barn was burn-| Will Give You the Best Values in School Shoes! | 31.25 ‘Sators 31-35 An elegant line of Shool Shoes for Misses wearing, For Beys wearing, Mens sizes we can Give you Good Wearers for , $1.35, $1.50. Ladies Sizes for $1.00, $1.25, $1.35, $1.50. | $1.00, $1. The ball game between the Butler | md Foster clubs, played Monday at the Lake Park in this city, resulted Ask to see our New Fall Styles in Ladies and wfollows: Foster 2, Butler 26. ' Gentlemen Shoes. MAX WEINER. Inconnection we have a first-class Shoe Repairing establishment. We guarantee satisfaction. Bring 1x Your Work. Walker Morgan, after a serious sick spell of two or three weeks, is go the mend and with no bad luck will be out again soon. Drysdale & Keasling shipped their big shoe to Peter Lane at | Sedalia. Mr. Lane borroweca the monster shoe to use in front of his place of business during the street fair in that city. The Times is glad to learn, through Mr. Keasling, that | Peter is doing a good business. Our old friend Oarter Wallace dropped in for a social chat and had the dates cet ahead on his paper. He is a large and prosperous farmer a clever, conscientious gentleman and a life long democrat. He has been a friend and patron of the Times for twenty years and there is | no citizen in the county we hold in higher esteem. §. J. Wilson, a prominent farmer of New Home township, a former Indiana democrat, made us a pleas- aat call Wednesday. John W. Jamison, John Klump and Mr. Loeb, three of Rich Hills’ prominent business men, were in the tity Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Little and eon Eimer, left Tuesday for Fair Play, Ills., to spend a couple of weeks vis- itng relatives and friends. Henry Doerflinger, a substantial German citizen of Grand River township, made us 8 pleasant call and had his name enrolled for the Toes. Obas. Lee, of Carthage, aged 64 years, was run over by a train at Webb City the other day and had a leg cut off. Itis thought his in- juries will prove fatal. Dies ot a Broken Heart. Webb City, Mo. Aug 29.—The widow of Henry Gilbert, who was killed in the recent powder explosion here, died yesterday of a broken heart. She leaves three children or- phans. | | LEGAL FIGHT FOR TWO CHILDREN. KILLED BY LIGHTNING, Between the Father en one Side and Grand Parents on the Other. Eighteen Head Fat Cattle Belonging to J, 8S. Arbuckie—Valued at 8810. RULE Shoe es The application for a writ of ha- baes corpus proceedings before the probate court, brought by Wm. Merchant, of Roekville, to secure the posession of his two children was heard Monday, and the motion of T. W. Silvers, attorney fer Jas. T. Merchant, to quash the proceed- isgs on the grounds that the probate court bad no jurisdiction in habeas corpus cases was sustained and the | case dismissed. The applicant, fail- jing before the probate court, have filed their application before Judge Graves and the case will be heard September 10:h. From the evidenee Were to Have Been Shipped Next Day. Eighteen head of fine fat cattle belonging to J. S. Arbuckle, a promi- nent farmer near Ballard, were killed by lightning on his place during the electric storm last Wednesday night. There is a hedge along which a wire wis strung. The cattle, forty-nine in number, had collected nesr this |bedge. Mr. Arbuckle bad made arrangements to ship on Thursday, and was on his way to the pasture early that morning, intending to drive the cattle over toa neighbor's Prohibits the Use of Arsenic or Alum in Food Articles, The law enacted by the last legis- lature, a copy of which was recently published in our columns, and which prohibits the manufacture or sale of any article intended for food or to be used in the preparation of food, which contains alum, arsenic, ammo- nia, etc., places Missouri at the head of the states in the matter of sani- tary legislation. Laws restricting the use of alum in bread have been in force in Eng Weltmer, the magnetic healer at Nevada, has brought suit for twenty thousand dollars damages against Rev. Bishop, South Methodist min- ister at Nevada, and the St. Louis | Christian advovate, on account of au article written by Rev. Bishop and published in that paper, notice of which was made in'last week’s Tres. The person who took two bundles ofdry goods belonging to B A. Gtigier, from Williams Bros. store Aug. 17th, will confer a favor by teturning same to store 8. E. Heinlein and family returned j from Monegaw Springs tbe last of Jthe week. Mr. Heinlein is laid up With a sprained ankle, which he fteceived while jumping across & ‘| branch. Edgar Young, agent for the Lightning Stock Remedy, favored W pleasantly while in the city Sat- Uday. He wishes us to say that | wy orders for his medicine left with |. H. L Tucker would receive ‘| Prompt attention. From (. A. McCombs, we learn of the death of Thomas Alexander, which occurred at his home near Johnstown on Tuesday of last week, of brain fever. He was sick only a few days. Deceased was an old set- tler, forty years of age and leaves a wife and five children. He was @ respected citizen, a good neighbor, kind and loving husband and father Our highly esteemed friend O. A McCombs favored us with a renewal. He is now farming the old home- stead place on which he was born avd raised, near Johnstown. He Wieconsin, Michigan, Obio, Ken effected. are branded to show that they con tain slum, ard io alum has been made illegal. land, Germany and France for many years. In this country, in Minnesota, tucky and several other states, direct legizlation in reference to the sale of alum baking powders has also been In several of these states their sale ia prohibited unless they the District of Columbia, under the laws of Con- gress, the sale of bread containing Following are the names of some of the brands of baking powder sold ing, a bolt of lightning struck a| shade tree standing within five feet of the kitchen dcor and in an instant it was torn to splinters. From this tree the lightning followed a clothes line to another tree near by and 1t, too, was splintered. Mr. Curry’s daughter Sallie, who was near the kitchen door, was shocked and badly ecared but escaped unbarmed. THE WESTBROOK MURDER What William Requa Says of the Ancient Crime. Nevada Mail, 20th. | to weigh them, when he was met by [his bired man with the bad news that 18 of the finest ones were lying it appear that the father of the the childrev is a profligate sort of a fellow and the mother, knowing this dead next to the hedge. The weight of the remainder showed that the dead ones would have averaged $45 per head. This is a total loss as they were not ineured. A few years ago a con of Mr. Arbuckle was killed by lightning at bis home. At that time another son came near losing his life in a swollen stream while going to Adrien for assistance. \fact. on her death bed exacted 8 | pledge from her father and mother | Mr. and Mrs. Jas T. Merchant, that | they take charge of the children and leare for them The grandparents |have complied with their promise \thue far and being of the opinion | that the father is an unfit person to | care for the little ones are still will ieg and anxious to raise the cebildren. W.O Jackeon appears for Wm Merchant The case promises to be | Wager Was Fatal to Both, : A large number of our are attend: spent several years in the south|jo, this state which are shown by| Wm Requa went to Butler to day hotly contested and sensational : F ae sing the fair at Rich Hill this week | with a view of locating. but found)recent analysis to contain alum. |to attend the Bates county old set Wises: paiote. Re! 29.— Paris, Tex ’ Aug. 29.—On Craig's Atubpoena from the circuit court | no place which suited him so well as| Hous-keepers and grocers should| tere’ reunion. He will vieit bis| Frederick Jobneon, a Gilbert Piains prairie, in Delta county, two cotton feems to bs about the only attrac terday sbot and killed his Pickers made a wager, each claiming old Bates. He basa splendid crop/cut the list out and keep it for farmer. y¢ brother ia law in Butler a week that he could pick more cotton in 9 that inQuzes the citizavs of of corn and thinks it will yield near] reference: Mr. Requa was one of the j rs | Wife ant es — — eae paeage et agp town to visit Butler | 40 busbels tothe acre. cr C _....Contaios Alum ! : ; > Bree | Committe ide No reason on ay thar he o n the \4 (a 2 eae i who convicted Theophilus Kk Free ||, aseigned for the deed stsetesen Seth wens teal G0bte Maaf. by Jaques Mfg. Co., Chicago. Three Meals Contains Alum Manf. by Ridenour Baker Grocery Co., K.C.} Jack Frost Contains Alum. | Man. by Bain & Chapman Mfg. Co. St. Louis. | i man at Butler 30 years ago of the murder ef James Westbrook. Free man was gentenced to be hug, but three days before the execution he broke jail. A man supposed to be Freemen is now in jail at Ardmore, L T, awaiting requisition papers to bring him back to Butler to answer for the crime of thirty years ago. e Robt. Stubblefield, of Sumait | We received a pleasant call from } township, bas S0 or 90 acres of| R 1, Braden, democratic committee broom corn, which he is now busy | man of Homer, on Saturday, who} “Mutting. There is money in broom | fayored us with a renewal and had % 8 ths year, some of the agricul: | the Tues sent to his sister Mrs. M. | Calumet Contains Alum. ful papers are predicting it will) 4 qeech of Chicago, who is spend-| P* a Te Sup to $115a ton. | ing aseason in Butler. Mr. Braden} Sua by Grant Chemical Co., Chicago, Miss Maud Donovan, living at|is a large and prosperous farmer of | Grant's Improved. . .Contains Alum. Geveland, Ohio, visited Mrs. N. B. | western Bates, a clever gentleman | Man. hy J CGrant & Sons Mfg. Co., St. Louis. adjacent furrows. Both had become and desth appeared to “Duly Feed Man and Stee i overheated have come simultaneously MAR EE Cattle for Sale I have for sale 141 heal of three yea steers, will weigh about 550 pounds, deborsed and in fair fleeb Price 4 cente. re so be staryed When they make their t i rich and pure with Hoods saparilla their nervousness disappears because and good colors EES. 3 the Seatel the week and land very popular with those who | Sweet ak. oS Contains Alum. Mr. Requa stated this morning the nerves are properly fed. Hood’s Cattle at W. J. Bard’s,near Virginia, Met many of her old friends of But- know him. He has been a life long Spot Cash....---- - Contains Alum. | that he was not sure that be could Sarsaprilla never disappoints Mo. Will sell in lots to suit the le, She has fulfilled the promise | and active democrat, and his friends| Hundreds of private, or grocers | identify Freeman, but he is anxious) : a gle 2c foes | are talking about him being a candi-| own brands, made from alum, will) to see the man when they bring him Hood's Pills cure constipation. 42.1t Virginia, Mo. : ful lish BE seem a aad yg ane for treasurer next time. § | under the law become contraband. | back to Butler. | Price 25¢