The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 22, 1900, Page 1

~The Butler Weekly Times. VOL. XXII. BUTLER, MIS THU W GOODS! AT utler Gash Department Siore. Over 1,200 square feet of floor space and basement and warehouse chuek full from floor to ceiling have been buying and storing these goods in our warehouses, RSDA ag FE ‘BRU ARY, 1900. NEW GOODS! NO. 15. THE For months past we ahead of the advances of the murket, until now we are the BEST EQUIPPED HOUSE IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI to meet competition, and we show the largest variety of merchandise ever shown under a single roof iu the st souri for a town the Waists are the richest designs ever shown in Butler. Parker, Holmes and all the leading brands ot shoes sold at dry goods profits price, and quality fully guaranteed. line of men’s and boys’ pants, overalls, shirts, underwear and a complete line of the celebrated Noxall Goods. size of Butler. we are better prepared to serve the people than eve While our business has been phenominal and our of Mis- ace sales far beyond our expectations, before. Our Chicago line of Dry Goods, Silks, Ladies Suits, Silk Get prices on our dry goods. SHOES: Selz Swab, Henderson Large The largest COMPLETE LINE OF FURNITURE AND CARPETS ever shown in Butler and at OLD PRICES. Get our prices on furniture and carpets it will save you 20 per cent. your flour before trade. it advances. Hardware, Groceries, Paints, Cuttlery, Queensware, Clocks, Stoves, and a special price on Flour in 500 pound lots. Suy Bring in your produce, we want it at the highest market price and Will pay cash or Get our prices on Asbestos Paint, the best and cheapest paint on the market. Undertaking and Embalming a Specialty, Residence phone, 109. BUTLER CASH DEPARTMENT STORE. ‘GPBritish Believe a Great Victory Is About te Come. London, Feb. 20, 3:45 a. m.—A | Member of the cabinet told H. W.! wucy to-night that the war office had Meeived a telegram announcing that General Cronje ounded. Mr. Wyndham was beset by anx- ous members of the house, but would ! mly reply that the government's 8 was extremely satisfactory. sole explanation of the govern-| mt withholding good news is the confirmation and more details are | awaited. he situation as disclosed by cor-| pondents over the Free State bor-, is tantalizing to the public ex-| ation. The elementary facts are | the Boers are trekking eastward | foward Bloemfontein, with slow mov- Ebageage trains, and that they being pursued by Lord Kitch-| > With General Kelly-Kenny’s Sion. General MacDonald, with) highlanders. made a forced march 9 Koodoosrand ford and on Sunday | Wushed twenty miles eastward. Gen- French left Kimberley Saturday, ding east along the Modder river. ord Kitcheneris trying to outmarch ind to outflank the Boers, and thus hecking their their retreat, if possi- We, and driving them back into the nds of MacDonald and French. y+ he war office message communica- OHto Mr. Lucy seems to indicate Lord Kitchener has either got | d of the Boers or is about to re- e his plan, and the war office waits announce a decisive result. Meanwhile, Commandant Delarey, h the Boers from Colesberg, is! anging on to the right flank of the | was hopelessly sur- | British p pursuing columns, seeking to | delay their movement and so to as- sist the Boer wagon trains to escape. Students of topography think the Boers will hardly risk a fight until | they get into the rough country north of Bloemfontein. Stood De ath Off. E. B. Munday, a lawyer of Henriet- a, Tex nce fooled a’ grave-digger. He says Y brother was very low with malarial fever and jaundice. | | persuaded Kim to try Electrie Bitters and he was soon much better but continued their use until he was wholly cured. Iam sure Electric Bit- ters saved his life.” s remedy expels malaria, dis s and purifies the blood; aids digestion, {regulates liver, kidneys and bowels, cures constipation, dyspepsia, ner- | vous diseases, kidney troubles, female | complaints; gives perfect health. Only | 50ce at H. L. Tucker's drug store. PRICES ADV ANCED. | Jump From $3 to $5 Per Ton in Block | Sheets Chicago, Feb. 16.—Iron tomorrow will say: Announced. and steel A jump from $3 to $5 per ton in| the price of block sheets; $3 by some } mills, $5 by others, who were lower, an advance of 5 per cent in the price of galvanize sheets, are the latest features of the iron and _ steel mark- ets. This sharp advance was made immediately after the formation at Pittsburg on Wednesday American Sheet Company, a combi- nation of the sheet mills of the coun- try. Working Night and Day. The busiest and mightiest thing that ever was made is Dr. King’s New Life Pills. These pills change weakness into strength, list- lessness into energy, brain-fag into mental power. They're wonderful in building up the health. Only 25¢ per box. Sold by H. L. Tucker. of the | little | | "POSTM ASTER UNDER ARREST. | F. G. Simmons Charged With Embez- zling Over $3,000. Simmons, Postmaster at Seward, this state, was arrested and brought to this city to-day to answer the! charge of embezzlement of over $°%,- | 000 of the funds of his office. Simmons is editor of the Seward Reporter and prominent in newspa- | per and political cireles of the state. | It is stated that he took the money | to pay debts incurred in borrowing money from personalfriends. He had | covered up his defalcations for son e time, but when the postoffice inspec- tor detected the true condition of | things there was less than $100 in | the office. He was permitted to give | bond for his appearance next week. | Simmons stood well in theestimation | of Seward people and his arrest has | caused a sensation in that town. | A tragic circumstance connected | with the arrest was the sudden death | | of the man selected by the post offiee | inspector to take temporary charge ofthe office—David H. Figard. On their way to the postoffice Figard | | swooned and fell over, dead, of heart | disease. Sweeping Smallpox Order. Spokane, Wash., Feb. 17.—The city board of health to-day issued an order requiring every man, woman and child not already vaccinated |to be within the next three days. An old ordinance of the city makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by fine} and imprisonment. to fail to comply with such an ordinance. It will be wellnigh impossible to enforce the | order of the board among the 50, | 000 inhabitants of Spokane. j \ | Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 16.—Frank G. | | Several of the largest | planters holding their products and | being unable to obtain work. The | mediate expenses and for the relief of CONDITIONS IN PUERTO RICO. Pressing Need of Immediate Congre:- | DUVALL & PERCIVAL, BUTLER, MISSOURI. We have the cheapest money to loan | | | sional Action. | San Juan, Puerto Rico, Feb. 17.—; merchants of | FARM LOANS. jSan Juan, upon being interviewed, | ever offered in the county. Call on us. | unanimously expressed the opinion | that immediate congressional action | is absolutely essential to the interests | 3 of the island. They say that the‘ Ee | crops are immov able, the proposed [ Steer er SaaS duty, under the Foraker bill, on sugar | d and tobacco, being prohibitive. | * Won't Fight the Boers. New York, Feb. 14.—According to the statement made by steerage pas- & SoHE awey nie ape RmnobeR ne Public Sale- I will sell at public sale on the Zib There are now 3,300,000 pounds of St White farm two miles south and one tobacco ready for shipment. and by | vers Oceanic, which arrived ile west of Altona. on Tuesd + Pe oo | Sengers of the mile west o' Itona. on jay, August there will be 5,000,0) ed | to-day, there is a generalexodusfrom | pobrnary 27. 1900, the following pounds. The best price obtainable | England of young men who aviod : | property one pair work mares, One pair good work borses, two extra sin- horses com- one 16% fresh im for tobacco in New York, under the 50c duty is $1.85. The berey ° - : ete — = & é onishec o ne eh 1° ” wie drivers anc There eee Sa gates crop a ecapt passengers arrived there, se two yearling colts owing to the hurricane, and sugar that more than? 300 were men bet ween | I “i \ i at 4 ;cannot pay the duty imposed, the | the ages of lSand 25 hand mule : ‘A number of the new arrivals were | spring; five heifers, coming two, frewh jawaiting the action of congress. | taken aside, and they surprised we lin spring: two 3-year-old steers, two There is no money to plant new crops | officials by saying that in nearly | yeari fourteen bead A _ ize | every instance the 300 had come over ir brood sows, one thoroughbred Po- or to pay laborers, thousands 6f)+, 4yoid the possibility of being 4 pis sa bide Mae tesco hte whom are on the point of starvation, | forced to serve against the Boers a land- ‘hina oar, nied wad of stoe ‘Thousands of othersare coming,” | hogs, 700 or 800 bushels of corn, 60 they said. “We are the first to ar-| shockscornin field, two we the » expected South African war draft. saddle >, nine head cows, five calves, “ons abou estates are idle,and bankers refuse to | and harness, new; ._ | rive.” new, spring wagon 4 advance funds on account of the ex- | single buggy and b ness, two sete tension of mortgages; the planters} A Night of Terror. | farm harness, corn crusher, twoJoum are desperate, and the people dis- = a Deere riding cultivators, two 16-inekx | d they d d absolute ‘Awiul anxety Was tit 10 | breaking plows, one combined corm | couraged, and they —e seas | wider of the brave General Burnhan | planter and other farming im free trade and authority for theis-) ,¢ Wachias, Me.. wl tie doctors | ee ons searing ball, athe ar said she would die from pneumonia |} before morning” writes Mrs. 5. H Lincoln. ho attended tl dreadful r but she land to contract a loan to pay im-} and kitchen furnitu TERMS: All st | On sums of $10 T 19 months will be ider 210 cash over a credit & nh Without mter the planters. bee The local press Soars wee the opin- Dr. King’s New Discovery. w jest if paid when due, otherwise % ion that the conditions of the island | ore than once saved her | deal 1 oie’ const: intedent gts were better during the dark days of; cured her of consumption. Note to bear appr arity BS a she slept « nig’ - - ai the Spanish regime. The Foraker | ta he slept all night Property must not | use entirely cured by i velous medicine is guaran eed to cure : all throat, chest and lung diseases pV Only 50c and $1. _ Trial bottles free | at H. L. Tucker's Drug store. } terms oi sale are co bill would be acceptable without the duty, the merchants being willing to | pay a revenue tax in lieu of the tariff, which would relieve the planters PI BROWN Guardian of O. 8. Pipes Epwarp Martz, Auctioncer. \