The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 1, 1900, Page 1

he Butler Weekly | Why these people are allowed to mess about the camp I cannot understand. Some of these disloyal colonials have been caught red-handed fighting | against the queen. Why don’t they shoot them right off, instead of send- ing them down for trial—they don’t | deserve it. | Most of the regiments here are full of young boys for officers and the | men don’t care about them. I saw | some of them at Modder river fight | ing like a lot of school boys, shoutin out orders that none of us could un- | derstand, so that the old hands took } are the best for officers. None of uscan make out why so many young officers | aresent out to take charge of old | soldiers. Why can’t we have more of | our old officers? My late captain, who left us at Aldershot, came to see | were called in for redemption. thing that ever was made is Dr.|his body. He submittted quietly to eng 8 New ie bea ; hice ie a Search, which was quickly made of change weakness into strength, list-| pis aa : ee lessness into energy, brain-fag into his clothing, the proceeds being eae mental power. They're wonderful in Meee A quick building up the health. Only 25c examination of the revolvers sowed per box. Sold by H. L. Tucker. revolvers and a big knife. that none of the cartridges had been used and there was = no powder smut Missouri Bond Redemption. Jefferson City, Mo., upon any part of his weapon, prov- | Jan. 23.—At|ing conclusively that could not a meeting of the State Board of have used any of his three weapons. Fund Commissioners yesterday 210,000 of 34 per cent option bonds he Senator Goebel was wounded by a rifle ball of small caliber, not over 38, | which struck him in the right side} just The ball passed through the back part of the | State Auditor Seibert has drawn below the armpit. his warrant upon the State Treasury tothe Exchange National Bank of New York, the fiscal agent of the state to meet the bonds as they are presented there for payment. This payment will reduce the bond- ed debt of the state to $2,636,000. senate chamber, in company with Lillard of the Frankfort penitentiary Mr. Lillard was a few feet in advance of Goebel and Chinn; who were walk- | attempted toenter the doors from Colonel Jack Chinn and Warden Eph | i | did the work had evidently taken his going to die. ARMED MOUNTAINEERS ON GUARD. As soon as it'was known that the bullet. which struck down Mr. Goebel had come from the building to the east.a group of men ithered in frontof the door onthe east side. Others ran around to the door on the west side to prevent the escape of anybody from there. Several mien the outside, but were prevented by groups of mountaineers who stood in the doorways. Some of these men held Winchesters in their hands and presented an aspect so generally ur willing that no attempt was made to reh the buildingand nobody gain- That the shooting of Mr. was the result of a car States to use his good offices to bring about a quick ending of (a struggle now on between the Boer republic and Great Britain, and if later devel- opments tend to forecast the ulti- mate victory of Great Britian, to “demand” that the They also ask the Pres- st step in and war be stopped ident of the or recognize the r the Transvaaland Orange officially. The resolutionsare to be sent to the congressmen representing St. Louis in Washington. to at ives of ree State United es } Goebel | day at the Christian chureh in Johns- ily laid plan | town. The man who without question. stand at the window which had been previously raised in the free passage of the bullet, and Il Graham's sale last Saturday j was largely attended. Stock sold at | their full value. Other things sold order to allow | reasonable. | John Bommand and family were also Allen | for the Sth of February, 10th Colson, his brother, for the They are going to Colorado. B. L. Sanders purchased a horse near Deepwater last week. | Sam Stayton says hehad rather go down through the timber on foot to see his girl than in a buggy, the j Toads are 80 rough. Miss Dale spent Friday and Satar- day with Mattie White. Rates Scranton and Alvin Billings visited at Nelia Scranton’s Saturday night. Wackerman says Spearman welds plow points and shears on instead of putting them on with rivets and glue. ©. K. Wart got the bouquet which j no notice of them and went their own | for thisamount in favor of Governor right lung, across the body on a di-| ed entrance to it for several minutes Deepwater Items | was on exhibition, to be drawn at way as best they could. Most of the | Stephens, president of the be yard and|agonal line, passing out below the | after the shooting had been doue, " ss as | a sie a Girls, look out! see who regiments are the same. The guards | the money will at once be forwarded | left shoulder blade. | and the assassin had ample opportu- Rev. Rodgers of App! leton ity bebe & Pabanatet é , 4 M : a nity to escape. | preached two able sermons last Sun- Seranton and son made a r. Goebel was on his way to the y business trip to Butler, Thursday. We would like to know if the Smoky Row crowd found their wagon wheel which they lost while coming to the spelling Friday night There will be preaching at Christian church next Sunday. the us off, and we asked why he was not Se ing side by side, Goebel being on the | waited until his victim was in full| the guests of Grandma Wilker last | - Cove Creek Baptist Prt is with- coming with us. He replied that the | A Frightful Blunder right and Chinn on the left. sight before firing. Ever since the| Sunday. | Sack sho hast pdt a ple poiba bly ilies war office would not let him rejoin Will often cause a horrible bur From the outer edge of the capitol | influx of mountaineers last week, a| Mrs. W Jackson, who has been |! some prea’ oa. a ss eo ee 3 large number of them have been | sick for several weeks, it is reported, | some Sunday he will give him some He was a good man. We would not have lost half the men we had if had had older officers. we grounds to the steps of the capitol building the distance is about 300 feet. seald, cut or bruise. Bucklen’s Arni- ca Salve. will kill the pain and promptly heal it. Cures fever sores, : 3 : Two-thirds of this had been | ulcers, boils, corns, all skineruptions. Sy pease ss! j house. It is sleeping in the upper part of the sate is not known, however, that any of these men did the work, lis not improving very fast. | Measles are reported as being quite ithe rage in Johnstown. W. H. Zim- |mers has the measles | good corn bread for dinner. | Mrs. Reed of near Ballard, visited at Mr. i peateane Friday. John Johnson has sold his bay ve w igvade i re . = se} > > walking | tthey had any knowledge of We were a good brigade if bas had | Best pile cure onearth. Only 25c¢ a passed and the men were walking oe : ction me erime hace asl The social hop at Hugh Gorden’s | baler and is going tofarm now. He not been messed up and if only} box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by H. [roe when suddenly a shot rang | not os far, been discovered the | last Tuesday evening was said to be sthe next thing he wants is a Wauchope had been left to handle us L. Tucker, druggist. out from a large three-story_building | slightest direct evidence pointing to | the swellest ‘affair of the season. cook. What do you say, Gertie? which stands 50 feet east of the capi- | any man and it is not likely now that are informed that Miss Nana | Miss Goodwin formerly of near himself. This isa terrible war and } God only knows how it will end. Edlinger’s Body Exhumed. tol building. This building is used | any will ever be found. iow Maxey will teach the spring term of | Mayesburg, but now of Urich, tried ato of ee eee = - — - = ——— wit S | VOL. XXII. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 1, 1900. NO. 12 A STORY OF A HIGHLANDER. ARMED MEN LEAVE FRANKFORT. i" es oem ee es r py ee be : /UL A ( GOEBEL VICTIM 4 Qne of Methuen’s Soldiers Tells of Bat-| Greater Number of the Visitors Go} = | . j ; > tle at Modder River. Home by Advice of Republican } ' London, Jan. 17.—(Correspond- | Leaders. | (] AS SSI N S BULLE ence of the Associated press)—The| Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 26.—The po-| ‘ 3 following account of the Modder river } Jitical situation was quiet this morn- | ie i, fight was received to-day from the|ing and the people of the —— Has Deen opened in @ Dur i ! Argyle and Sutherland highlanders: | awoke with a sense of relief, i altack. ney aye q “We have had some hot fighting | night that he eater he onet Saree : 7 i $1,000,000 cat tc back I i 3 e = & nat had threatened to be one) Q@ x Se 4 * Ne x 5 + ty wee Lp \ with Methuen, but we got through all | of wild excitement. The iShot \W hile Pe SSInNg Thi ough State House their stateme: i e right until the 11th. when he got a] adopted by the armed = a é ri licking. We of the highland brigade | the mountain cou Y ard at Fr ankfor t. er : tomarch during the night to | Capitol vesterday + cabo = - J ; i had c ig t x apitol yesterday w 1 i 4 st 4 f ; | sarprise the Boers. No one knew | poth houses of the legislature to-| —— BUCS M9 ENE 2 what we were going to do or where | day. | i rain came dow a= ; 595 a aa " 7 ‘ . : “pas ogeost 4 er se So) Aenck C50 of the Soe me whee Murderer Conceals Himself in the Executive Building.—Lies| in torrents and we ‘were soaked | rived on the special train yesterday i : ‘ . . | ) through, and that on empty stom. | left last night. going back over the| in Wait for His Unsuspecting Prey and Uses a Rifle. _————— achs. We were led right into the |'route on which they came : “RS zm Boer trenches by guides, and before | The decision to send thein home Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 30.—While | spot where the shootir occurred IPATHIZE WITH THE BOER Lost Corner Items l we could deploy from column half of | was reached at a conference of re walking through the capitol grounds | Hore he was laid on a sofa, while D-. ——— ei bide laims visited Mrs us were shot down. We all ran for] publicans at which at least two rep- on his way to the capitol building at |Hume made a hasty examination, | =s-Governor Stone and Others Address Mr. Ke Batis made a flying trip to : our lives and reformed 500 yards|resentatives declared they would | te? minutes after 11 o'clock this | pronouncing the wound to be of a| Mass Meeting in St. Louis. Passaic, then to Burdette , re back, when the Gordons joined us, | yote against Taylor retaining his morning, William Goebel, the demo-| nature that must cause death in a} J, a : 353" "Phe Four Sunday night ; and we again tried the trenches. But | seat if the men were kept here. eratic contestant for governor of:short time. Goebel, who showed |, Es eres = | pelling at Hackler school L be a : 2 : Ke ence 1 and. veLy | ene es i é ne a eenth Street theater was packed s well attended and every- it was no good. All day we lay out| Senator de Boe is a prominent fig- | SeUtUeKY, Wass rot down and_ very | great fortitude and courage through-| \ith enthusiastic sympathizers of enjoyed themselve . inthe sun, without food or drink,}ure here this moraing, conferring dangerously wounded. | out, smiled weakly as he heard the eRe AP ethan sas Dr. Mrs. Wheeler is very low at ‘this and in the afternoon the Boer shells | with republican leader Harland Whittaker, a farmer from | verdict, and feebly rolled his head Emil Pretoriu litor of the W ai” riting z ¥ etorius, ¢& f > eo | ‘4 — began bursting among us, so we| At the opening of the house session Butler county, the home of Governor | from side to side in token of dissent |); = Pci GEGaA a) clinica aoa 0. kK. Hart made a business trip to ae a raaaien > Ws He Se te ‘ - Taylor, is > in: ie ; Louisville | fr > Se ae A hy pene eee ne as chi an, and) Appleton City Saturday and Sunday. made the best of our way tothe rear.|the Van Meter-Berry contest from Taylor, i ey he ail in I beagioe from the opinion entertained by th opened the meeting with a brief and| Uncle Peter Ewing was up to Mayes- The men were sick and dispirited; | Jefferson county being a spe- charged with the crime. There is no | physician. iiwesting epecck Adresses were | burg mill with a fall wagon loa of : there was no fight left in them, and | cial order for this morning, a com- direct evidence against Whittaker He was then carried to his room on pe if hs ay ee : Sioie 1 CORR which he had ground for his ade by ex-Governo Ae 2, A they would not stop for the officers | promise between the democratic and | 2nd he was } -ed under arrest more | the second floor of the Capitol hotel. | —— - picesepic E wil swine Sel jeneral Wauct re ; : F because he was caught around the | and i iti ) : Judges Rombou and Estes, J Jesse Shaw hauled clover Saturday. or anyone else. Gene ral Wauchope | and repnblican leaders resulted in the ause he was caught aroun and in addition to Dr. Hume. Drs. ‘Taylor and Hon. O'Neil Ryan. Reso Mea re raeit Pet ( k was killed—hit in seven places. He | adoption of a resolution that the capitol building when the shots were | McCormick and Ely were summoned lution extremely stron “and svm-| from he: d to Gaoeeee Re Ser mene was the right sort. They say it was | house should hear the majority and fired than for any other apparent | to attend him. After acareful exam- eilieGc wank pend anal o lopted | Dr. Milleris kept busy riding day not his mistake at all, and he did| minority reports as a committee of reason. He denies in the most posi-|ination of the wound the doctor 2S resolutions are probably the | and night. e A e PSC « I > A ence ‘hite y ing i not want the night attack. Anyway | whole, not less than twenty and not tive manner that he had any connec-| announced that while exceedingly ie t pa “a ES ae aS B ed = ( gp renan White is visiting in John- ; siete sare cs 5 i ae cere Se oe is ese rongest passed by an »ro-Boer | «on county it was a ghastly failure. : more than fifty minutes being allowed tion with the ‘shooting or knew any-| dangerous it was not necessarily mass meeting yet held in thiscountry J. 1. Mayes’ are visiting relatives The camp at Modder river was full for discussion and argument. thing about it. He made no attempt | fatal unless complications or blood Af ach’ Se . aoe 1 ~ | in Montrose. of Boer spies—colonials and others— | — to escape, knowing well that the | poisoning should set it. The patient |* ee . Sens i et is 1 As eee | J. M. Mayes has two car loads of S go our every movement was watched | Working Night and Day. slightest attempt to do so would | himself kept up his courage, insisting re : ee fe : 5 Byse 5 i ae ot o— about dproe for market M FF * sacle " ree ors -o1,{ have brought a on t ots i eal P in that I An ustrious Abraham ancoln, they | ashington Colson was in Mayes- and information carried to theenemy The busiest and mightiest little} have brought a dozen vullets into | again and tat he was not) called upon the President of United | burg last weekSputting up sale bills : - ire: 7 < | se t Johnstown. to commit suicide by taking rough for offices by nearly < > ,| Tbe man who fired the shots took | 8« hool | i ceaiby Beary Slt le ean | the precaution to conceal his loca- Lee Simpson, was heard to say, | 0n rats, but prompt attendance of = officials of thestate, Governor Taylor | tion by using smokeless powder ; “we are proud of our new cook who | physic jan saved her life. and the secretary of state having | cartridge: . A score of people were arrived last Sunday. |; Will Douglass sports a new bugey- rooms on the first floor. t Will Shelton is the proud owner of | PECK. « My wound is not a bad one—a shot through the fleshy part of the thigh —and I was so excited I did not no- The body of Leopold Edlinger who was murdered by the Meeks men and Phillips was exhumed to-day by Un- tice it for an hour or two.” “Stood Death Off. BE. B. Munday, a lawyer of Henriet- once fooled a grave-digger. } My brother was very low with malarial fever and jaundice. I persuaded him to try Electric Bitters and he was soon much better but continued their use until he was wholly cured. Lam sure Electric Bit- ters saved his life.” This remedy expels malaria, disease germs and purifies the blood; aids digestion, regulates liver, kidneys and bowels, | cures constipation, ayspens ner- | vovs diseases, kidney troubles, female complaints; gives perfect health. Only 5Vc at H. L. Tucker’s drug store. ' Tribune. pavement. dertaker Goodlander at the request of Ferdinand and Herman Leimer, husbands of his two sisters who live near Prairie City in Bates county. They arrived last night to take the the bod¥ back to Missouri and give it a good burial there. At the time of the burial here the As the shot was heard Goebel gave | a quick, involuntary exclamation of | pain and made an effort to draw his | revolver. His strength was unable to the task, however. and he sank | upon the pavement. With great! rapidity several more shots were | body had not been identified and it}fired, the bullets all striking the | was entered in the potter's field. The brick sidewalk close to where Goebel | body was found to have almost to-| lay. None of them touched him, | tally decayed. It was enclosed | however. | in another box and the Leimer| Lillard hastily turned around to} brothers started with it in their|aid Goebel, who was supported by | wagon for Prairie City.—Ft. Scott | Chinn, who had his arms about him almost as soon as he touched the re ee mae aaa ta ctaa FARM LOANS. We have the chespest money to loan ever offered in the county. “Get help,” said Chinn to Lillard, | and turning to Goebel he asked: | “Are you hurt, Goebel? Did they | get you?” | “They have got me this time.” re- | In less than a minute a crowd of! men was around Goebel. He was losing much blood and was becoming very weak. He was hastily carried Call on us. | me. | i WAS LOSING MUCH BLOOD. | | where they had a full view of the side of the building from which the firing was done and all of them de- clare that not a sign of smoke was visible. Both Chinn and Lillard are men of experience in affairs in which powder smoke is a moreor less prom- | | inent feature, and both declare that while they could tell the general di-; rection from which the bullets came, they could not guess the spot from which they were fired. “J tried hard to get a sight of the fellow,” said Lillard. “‘Hekept pour ing the lead downat us, and I'll swear there was not a sign of anything to} indicate from where he was shooting. As many shots as he fired would | make considerable powder smoke if ordinary cartridges were used, but never a sign of smoke could I see.” “J Jooked around a mighty brief spell,” said Col. Chinn, “but there was nothing for me to look at, sol paid attention to Goebel. The fellow used smokeless powder, and I guess he was pretty wise todo it. Somc- had gone and it was time to look some where else.” Senator-elect Blackburn, who was in Washington. was informed of the shooting through the long distar-e a new set of harness made by ©. ¢ Cliser, of Spruce. Add Allison, one of Elm Grove’s | young men rode 65 miles one day last week from sun rise to sun set. Miss Ona Salmon of Montrose, was the guest of Judge Coleman’s a few days last week. John Jackson came home from Ap- pleton City Friday to see his mother | who is sick Arthur Chambers will teach the ' spring term of school at Elm Grove. | e wish him success. Miss Effa Allison went to Montrose shopping one day last week Some of the young men in this com- pop corn, but when it comes to pop- ping the question, their heart fails them—poor boy; Chopping wood is the order of the day among most of the energet ie young menin Johnstown. Mrs. 8. W. Gutridge. who has been visiting her parents here, left for her at vour home, secure scholarship. free. in either Draughton’s Practical Business Colleges—Nashville, St _ Little Rock, Ft. Worth, G Shreveport or Savann munity say they are fine hands to} L ss colleges in| | If you have any quills or feathers, | write to The Warren Featherbone | Co. at Three Oaks, Mich., for their | booklet of “Quills and Feat hers.” : | “Actions of the Just Smell Sweet.” The fragrance of life is \ vigor and strength, neither of which can be found in a per- | son whose blood is impure, and whose every breath | speaks of internal troubles. | Hood’s Sarsaparilla purifies, vitalizes and enriches the | blood, gives a good appetite and makes the weak strong. DUVALL & PERCIVAL, plied Goebel: “I guess they have killed | body might have got him if they had | home in Granite. Oregon. Rose. Run Down—“ My husband was ron ” 'known where tolook for him. 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