The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 18, 1900, Page 1

utler VOL. XXII. BUTLER, =e THURSDAY, JANUARY, BRING OUT THE FACTS IN THE GAGE SCANDAL. | if Republicans Stifle a Full In- | vestigation, Steps for Im- peachment will be Taken. THE FIRST MOVE MADE. Hanna and Other Party Leaders In- dignant Over Publication of Hepburn’s Letter. Jan. 12 Washington, if the republicans prevent a thorough | investigation of his acts in connec- tion with the National City Bank scandal. Ataconference of the democratic leaders it was decided to in the house to-day a_ resolution for aninvestigation of Secretary Gage. It is the desire of the democrats that | the investigation be non-partisan. The republicans senate buried political feeling when they unanimously passed resolutions | of inquiry; and the democrats have of party politics. The reply of Secretary Gage was so | utterly inadequate, and the letters, taken from the official correspond- ence, are so startling, that the demo- | erats feel confident the republicans, + like themselves, wish to learn all the facts. Democrats will take the position » that Secretary Gage’s relations with area great national scandal, which it is the duty of congress, irrespective of party, to probe to the bottom. Representative Sulzer of New York, tion of inquiry, was instructed by non-partisan investigation resolution to-day. Ifthe request for a non-partisan committee of investigation is not granted it will be regarded by the democrats as a partisan attempt to shield a republican office-holder, and they will reply by presenting articles of impeachment. It will be impossible to stifle debate ‘on a motion to impeach, for it is privileged, and all the extraordinary correspondence of the secretary, with _ eopious explanations, will be laid be- fore the country. Some of the republican leaders in private, denounce the secretary for furnishing the Hepburn letter. It is pointed out by them that it was not addressed to the secretary officially, and that it had no connection with other letters. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Has world-wide fame for marvel- lous cures. It surpasses any other galve, lotion, ointment or balm for euts, corns, burns, boils, sores, felons and ulcers, tetter, salt rheum, fever sores, chapped hands, skin eruptions; infallible for piles. Cure guaranteed. Only 25c at H. L. Tucker's. FIRE, LIGHTNING, TORNADO INSURANCE that gives abso- The companies in the world. FRANK ALLEN, Insurance Agency- With MissouriState Bank, Butler, Mo. lute protection. best Aneffort to | impeach Secretary Gage will be made | e | without the shadow of introduce | > | 5 the house and | prosecuting attorney or no desire now to make the affair one | _ the Standard Oil Bank of New York | who introduced the original resolu- | the democratic conference to offer the | FEDERATION CRITICISED. General Clark Discusses Those Militia Commissions. Jan. 11.—In resolutions presented at | the meeting of the state of Labor, by Mr. Bradley, ing the governor for issuing | Jefferson City, cussing the BE a sions to Col. « Col. nent Fleming and Lieut Leehtman oi the Third re be- ; cause they employed nonunion men | in their printing H.¢. establishment, Gen. Clark of Butler, prosecuting at- ates county, and com- cer of the National Guard who is in the of the state, | business before the | city on Supreme court, aid to a Republic to- night: “This attack unjust, unwarranted reporter the governor is and absolutely justification. Officers in the National Guard are not appointed by the but | are elected, and hecommissions them | when properly actly as the on governor, hin ex- sheriff, other certified to commissions 2a civil officer. He has absolutely no option | in the matter. } “Col. Fleming and Lieut. Col. Lechtinan were elected by the men who had served with them in the National Guard for years, and in the volunteer service during the Spanish American war, by the two-thirds ma- jority required by law and the result of the election was certified by Capt. Ward, the ofticer who presided at the ‘ election in the usual way, and in the usual time and manner their com- missions were issued by the governor as was his duty and only course un- der the law.” DONT! WOMEN. { Don’t write to a woman, when the roof leaks. Write to a carpenter. Don’t write to a woman when the water pi bursts. Write toa plumber. Don’t write ; to a woman when you are sick, write toa doctor. But why such superfluous ad- vice? Simply to call attention to the fact that ‘‘women”’ who are not qualified physicians offer medical advice, in adver- tisements worded in such a deceptive manner that you are apt to overlook the important fact that the woman is not a physician. The great success of Dr. R. V. Pierce, in treating and curing diseases of women has led to imitations of his methods, es- by letter to all sick women. of the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Tae stitute, of Buffalo, N. Y., and with an ex- rience of over thirty years, Dr. Pierce as achieved the position of the chief of specialists in the treatment of wom- an’s diseases. There is no living phy- sician, male or female, who can show an equal record of over half-a-milliqn wom- en treated and ninety-eight per cent. of cures. Write tothe doctor. Your letter will be read in private, answered in pri- vate and its statements held as sacredly confidential. To assure the exclusion of a third party from this correspondence, every letter is sent sealed ina plain en- velope, bearing no advertising or print- ing upon it. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Invalids’ Be, and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Pierce’s Favor- ite Prescription makes Weak Women Strong and Sick Women Well. Accept no Substitute. DUROC HOGS FOR SALE. = I have several brood sows for sale. dis- | Federation | “ condemn- | eommis- | HUSBAND IS IN JAIL. | | , Kentuckian Accused of Poisining His Wife. Jan. 12.—Ellis Gra- ssident of this coun- fifteen miles west of here, jail at this afternoon. He is ! Mayfield, Ky 1 farmer, lodged in the county esterday d with having poisoned his whose death occurred quite | iously Saturday night. Sat- 100n Mrs, Gr Hanada r He promptly d her condition the of stry« An antidote caused temporary relief and the physician left other medicine for her. During the night Mrs. John Carney mother of the sick woman, was in the act of administering some medicine she says. insisted that allowed to prepare the dose of medicine. Shortly after this incident the sick woman was writhing in agony, and before a phy- sician could be called she died. - Dr. John L. Dimukes, Jr., of this city, obtained the stomach of the deceased woman and took it to Louisville last night to have it analyzed. Graham is a man of good appear- ance aged about 30 years.. He says he came from Green, Ky., and has little to say of his life prior to his marriage, three years ago. Several months ago he had, it is said, his wife's life insured for $1000. He declined to make any statement regarding the death of his wife or his arrest. Mrs. Graham is a sister to Messrs. Ira and Robert Davis, two prominent business men of this city, and about 27 years of age. ham was | plysician was called pronounc result when Graham, he be Bowling HER SACRIFICE FOR LOVE. Sweetheart Recovers, but She Dies. He Committed Suicide. Wichita, Kan., Jan. 14.—While try- ing to save her Indian sweetheart from smallpox, Miss Ella Richards, a white woman, was herself stricken and died yesterday on the bed where he had lain and recovered. Thinking that Jack Flinthouse was going to die’she drank his blood so that the smallpox microbes would circulate in her system and death for both would result, but the Indian grew better, while his sweetheart grew worse. For the last month smallpox has raged among the Ponca Indians. It was mild inform and no deaths re- sulted. But Jack Flinthouse, it was thought by friends, would die, so Miss Richards, his fiancee, a white girl af wealth at Mulvane, Kan., was notified, but told not to come near him. Her parents alsocoaxed her to remain away, and even locked the distracted girlin her room. How- ever, she escaped and walked nearly 100 miles to the Ponca Reservation. Seeking her lover's house she bribed quarantine officers and gained his bedside. Many days and nights of anxious watching passed then the Indian decided death for him was cer- tain. The white girl decided to die also, so she cut a vein in his arm, drank the blood and together they prepared to die. But cruel fate caus- ed him to grow stronger. Fever came upon his nurse, she grew worse day by day and yesterday died. Flint- house then committed suicide. Miss Richards fell in love with the man for whom she died, last summer. He saved her from drowning while she was fishing with a party of friends in Oklahoma. Although she had many lovers from refined white men she declined them all and remained true to the Indian. Because of dan- JAS. PARK, Virginia. DUVALL & BUTLER, FARM LOANS. We have the cheapest money to loan ever offered in the county. PERCIVAL, MISSOURI. Call on us. ite ger of spreading the disease both bodies were buried together in an out of the way place. My wife’s good advice saved my life, writes F. M. Ross. of Winfield, Tenn., for I had such a bad cough I could hardly breathe. I steadily grew worse under the doctor's treat- ment, but my wife urged me to use Pr. King’s New Discovery for con-} sumption, which completely cured me. Coughs, colds, Bronchitis, la grippe, pneumonia sthma, hay} fever and all maladies of chest, throat | and lungs are positively cured by this marvellous medicine. 50c and $1. Every hottle guaranteed. Trial bottle freeat H. L. Tucker's Drug} Store. i | THEIR TRIAL IS SHORT. | George and Ed Meeks Found Guilty of Murder in the First Degree. Fort Scott, Kan., Jan. 15.—With-} out having raised a voice in their de- fence, except to plead not guilty, and | without having been repre: sente 1 by] an attorney, and without word of testimony, Ge Meeks of Kansas City w to-day for the re tried here | murder of Edlinger, a young farmer county, Missouri, whom it was claim. ed thetwo Meeks men and Amos Phillips followed from Bates county, Missouri, last November to this} county and murdered for his money, his team and a deed to an Ok farm, which he had which he was bound. The defendants insolently ignored the entire proceedings and were found guilty of murder in the first degree at 10 o’clock totight. The jury went out at 5o’elock with the’ eviden: that could not but convince all of the| guilt of the accused. It at the trial that the Meeks men were seen at many points along the route | taken by Edlinger from Missouri and | through two Kansas counties on Oct. 25, 26 and 27 last. The positively identified as having been seen close to Edlinger four miles from where the murder occurred. It was also shown that they had all property and personal effects when arrested in Cedar county, Missouri. They have persistently refused to give any sort of an explanation as to where they secured the Edlinger |‘ team and his effects. According to a confession made by hom: bought and for was shown were of his Amos Phillips, a Vernon county, Mis-|+ souri, man, who is charged jointly with the Meeks, they belong to an organized gang of stock, harness, farming implement and poultry thieves, which has headquarters in remote parts of Vernon and Cedar counties. The Meeks were arrested at their Cedar county According to Phillips’ confession, they planned the murder at the Ver- non county rendezvous, having learn- ed in Butler that Edlinger was soon to start from near there with a good mule team, new wagon, some money and other effects. They followed him from the start, Phillips says. Edlinger’s body wasfound weighted down in Mill creek, six miles from here two weeks after the murder, and was identified by his name ona slip of paperin his inside vest pocket, which the murderers overlooked in their search of his clothes. But for this he could not have been identified because of decomposition having set in. George Meeks’ wife. a young woman of Kansas City, sat by him during the trial. E. D. Booher, secretary of the inspector of detectives of Kansas City, and Detective Andy O’Hare of Kansas City, both testified against the men. They had become acquaint- ed with them in the criminal courts rendezvous. of Kansas City five years ago. Mr. Booher once took Ed Meeks to the reform school, from which place he escaped. He is now a fugitive from Kansas City. STORY OF BRUTAL MURDER. Trial of Amos Philips, Meeks Brothers. Fort Scott, Kan., Jan. 16.—The trial of Amos Phillips; the Vernon county, Missouri, farmer, charged jointly with Ed and George Meeks of Kansas City, who were last night convicted of the murder of Leopold Edlinger, was begun here today, and is progrssing tonight, developing the details of the most dastardly crime recorded in this county. The state got before the jury a confes- sion made by Philips after his arrest | at Rich Hill, in which he admits that | Accomplice of the Meekses met in a saloon at Rich} Hill and planned the murder, Ed! Meeks having reported there that! Edlinger was soon to leave Butler for| Oklahoma with a fine team, some money, ete. According to the prem the party drove to the farm of W. Tyler, near Butler. and pars there three days, waiting for Edlinger to start. They followed con- sare intendir to kill him that but | 1 ol ird rted ved witl teacher at } , Kan night out iped in a de stone hut fourteen miles northwest of } here, murdered him. Ed Meeks shot him and Philips beat his His body was with a and they brains out with an ax. hauled to a river, weighted sack of rocks, and thrownin. It we found two weeks later. The men re- turned at once t« souri with their victim’s prope y. and were detected by a simple coir cident a month later. Made cane Again. “One of Dr. King’s New Life Pills each night for two weeks has put me gain,” writes D. H. Turner of Dempseytown, Pa. They are the best in the world for Liver, ind bowels. Purely vege- er gripe. Only 25c at H. table. Hosiery Goes Cp. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 12.—The South- ern Association of Hosiery Manufac- turers has advanced the price 10 per cent. This is the second advance in prices in three months. W ecking for Convention. Washi York, Cincinnat eton, D.C., Jan. 14-New and Milwaukee have secured quarters at the Raliegh hotel} forthe meeting of the Ge aoc! ratic national committee Fel ru ury 2. They will open headquarters at once and will inaugurate their campaigns for the convention. Old People Made Young. J.C. Sherman, the veteran editor of the Vermontville ( Mich.) Echo, has discovered the remarkable secret of keeping old people young. For years he has avoided nervousness, sleep- lessness, indigestion, heart trouble, constipation and rheumatism by us- ing Electric Bitters, and he writes: “It can't be praised too highly. It gently stimulates the kidneys, tones the stomach, aids digestion and gives a splendid appetite. It has worked wonders for my wife end me. It’s a marvellous remedy for old people's complaints.” Only 50c at H. L. Tucker's Drug Store. Spruce Items. Levy Cunningham *of Windsor, is visiting relatives and friends here this week J. B. Newberry, of Spruce and Jas. Newberry, his brother, of Siloam Springs, started Monday for New) York to visit a brother, who is in very poor health. Ed Radford had his hand badly mashed the other day while helping move aseparator Jonathan Jackson is building an ice house, but it doesn’t look very favorable for filling it this winter. Quite a number of plows running again since the weather has opened up. ‘A number of friends and neighbors of Mrs. Snodgrass met at her home Monday and gave her a surprise birthday dinner. The table was load- | ed with ‘good things to which all did ample justice. At a late hour all de- arted for their homes wishing their ictus many more birthdays. Mr. Phifer and son made a call in this neighborhood to-day tooking at a farm belonging to Van Kretzinger which is for rent. -re farm for sale three miles south t of Spruce belonging to Mrs. Elizabeth Smith. deceased. J. E. meee? agent, wuce. F. Anderson moved Saturday toa house on Will Atcheson’s farm Mr. Clark and wife of Spruce Grandma Kretzinger a visit vaid last week. Geo Ludwick butchered bogs last Friday. Luther Walke barn inier pest ever has been opened in a bi $1,000 000 capital tc back three miles east of | NO. 10. SAND DOLLARS that it that it mation can or That 2n0¥ S attack. 297773 BEC ES ! min Henry county Mrs Ida Chatman die ther home on the 21st inst. of nsumption, af vlong and pai She leaves a devoted hust nd a little son tomourn their loss. All that ilful hands and loving hearts could H >was dor but the Lord v fitt lher home. “The Lord thand the Lord taketh away; sssed be the name of the Lord Funeral services were conducted by Rey. Crum and the remains interred jin the White cemetery besic rtwo little children, who had preceded ber | to that t nd better world } Mrs. Eliza Beard lost a 3-year old horse by running in the stalk Mr. Weaver, of Appleton City, in this neighborhood Sunday James Stevenson has finished work for nes Harney and is at with his mother Oliver & Carter shipped a nive of fat hogs from their feed lot week. Star and wife made a trip to Butler Monday G. R. Borum and family attendep a birthday supper at Mr. Ayers’ Fri day night. | | | home oad last Will Wigger took his motlher-in- law, who has been visiting them, home Sunday. STAR. Crand River Items. Mrs. Ret Robinson is number- ed on the sick list. C.F. Moulton, Jr., contemplates building a large barn in the near fu- ture. There has been a number of appli- cants for Mingo school for next spring. | Ed Sliffe is reported as plowing last week. Sylvan McCombs is reported as seriously ill. Id Porter's family are “enjoying” an attack of the measles. J. F. Powell was a Butler visitor last week. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Seatight went to Butler last Wednesday to bid Mr. and Mrs. Zib White goodbye. Mr. White is going to move to Texas. May success attend them. Wm. Lewis has moved and Barney Cruise is preparing to move on his place. Pola Woolsey has recovered froma recent attack of the measles, and is wondering what is next to happen? J. M. Allen, formerly of this vicinity. but now of Archie, is preparing to move back to this county. He has yurchased some of Deffenbaugh’s Dad: Mrs. J.S. Spaw, we are sorry to learn, is very ill with cancer of the breast. Measles are raging in these parts. | Almost every house has some victims. Ad Deffenbaugh is building a Kan sas barn. Joe Powell spent Saturday and Sunday with his friend John Ander- son, of Mound township. We are not responsible for what we |hear and write; we always guard mentioning anything of a ‘harsh na- ture. Wipe AWAKE. “‘Honest Labor Bears a Lovely Face.”” There is nothing more pleasing to look upon than a hearty, ruddy face, gained by honest toil. They are the saving of the nation, these toilers of both sexes, strug- gling for daily bread. Pure blood makes them able to heep up the daily round of duty at home, shop or store. If the blood has a taint or tm- purity, or a run down feeling comes on, the one remedy is Hood's Sarsaparilla, America’s Greatest Medicine for the blood. Poor Blood —“*M@My blood was so poor that in hottest weather I felt cold. Hood's Sarsaparilla made me warm. i is the right thing Hattie J. Taylor, Woodstown, N.