The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 24, 1900, Page 1

The Butler Weekly Times. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1900. [5 We] 2) 7G tS elie, [ We Still Continue | | | | To sell the Blocher stock of furniture at cost and, while we have sold over $1,200 worth, we still have a lot left. But do not think it will last always, one or two weeks longer will see the end of it. iS Remember you have never had an opportunity like this to get .new, clean, stylish and servicable goods at the cost to manufacture. Remember, also that those who come first get first choice. Here are a few of the bargains. $ .55 dining chair $ 43 $10.00 bed lounge S 7.00 .60 dining chair 50 .75 dining chair Lf 1.00 dining chair . 4.50 iron bed yr E 3.00 roching chair 5.00 iron bed 00 2.00 rocking chair | 6.00 baby buggy 25 4.00 rocking chair ' 9.00 baby buggy 3.00 bed stead 5.00 go cart 400 bed stead 5.00 bed stead 8.00 bed lounge 7.00 go cart 15.00 bed room suit te window shades, fringed .30¢ window shades, plain In fact these low prices hold good on all the stock as Jong as they last. Do not put off your visit too long, you may be too late. Butler Cash Department Store, u 11.00 bed lounge 8.00 3.50 iron bed 2.75 WOMAN SHOOTS TWO MEN. One Dies Immediately---Their Cempan- ion Narrowly Escapes. DUVALL & PERCIVAL, BUTLER, MISSOURI. FARM LOANS. We have the cheapest money to loan Memphis, Tenn., May 20.—Mrs. T F. MeKenna, wife of the proprietor of a grocery on Front street, proved | herself a remarkable markswoman this morning, when she put a bullet in the brain of Ed Whittington, and | another in the face of Dennis Brogan, ‘and caused a hasty retreat by Tom Coleman. ever offered in the county. Cail on us grocery and assaulted the porter {cKenna attempted to make peace, but was floored. Mrs. McKenna joined in the fray, and was knocked down with a bas bat in the | hands of Whitting The woman rallied, rushed behind the counter, grabbed a pistol, and her first shot put a bullet In Whittington’s brain. mittee to Deal With Them. | The man fell dead. The next shot brought Brogan down with a bullet in his head. He willdie. The third | passed through Coleman’s clothing i 90000000020 0000002009 COO B DOPOD SOAP LL DALND ODO OOD LOOP AAPL III = FIGHTING AGAINST FOOT PADS. tucky Farmer Shot by a Constable | Mayfield, Ky., May 21.—At Mt. on church in the southern part of his county yesterday afternoon, Constable George A. Wilson shot and led Tom Pryor, a young ‘or and friends were drink and created a disturbance. When ry resisted-arrest Constable Wilson Joplin Citizens Organize Vigilance Com- Joplin, Mo., May 20.—Joplin and | }allthe mining towns in this district | have suffered for several months from ired a 38-caliber bullet into Pryor’s i ae aa horse tueees. | Mrs. Meixenna and her husband were throat, which resulted in almost in- | 100° pads, and horse tileves. | arrested.’ Several ago a man Galena, K insulted her and. while shooting at him, a young man named Schiebler got in the line of fire and fell witha bullet in his leg. Mrs. McKinna says she shoots with both eves open and | with either left or right hand. She is a hard-working woman, but a ter- - | ror to evil-doers in her block. | ; Webb City, Carter- age have been equally afflicted with this city. So prevalent were crimes of these de- ptions that neither life nor prop- erty were safe. Six houses Joplin was the first. to take active tolen in the vicinity of McLoud | ™e@sures to prevent further depreda- t night. This morning twenty | VOUS: This was done by renty members of the anti-horse | ® Y lance committée. ‘T stant death. Pryor had fired four shots at the officer, none of which took effect. Pryor was 25 years of e and of aleading family. _ Guthrie, Ok.. May 18. eth fink th.” Hethat ‘He that see trolled the city in pairs. It is the intention to continue to patrol the city every nigh, although it is not probable that as many men will be nightly engaged in the work, nor will the demonstration of the mounted men be repeated for some time. In addition to the work of the vig- ilants the police and constabulary are bending every effort to city of all sorts of suspicious cl | ters and it can be stated with« ty t the reign of terror that ceeded the killing of your and the wounding of Mr week by foot pads is over. followed by the holding up of a m: There is nothing new to report in the Weltmer Institute mail matter. Regular delivery is be made by postmaster McAnulty in accorda | with instructions from the postot department as already publis! Yesterday $1.200 worth of mone orders were cashed at the Ne postoftice, these orders hay received at the Institute prior to Ma) 3. No money orders have been sented by Prof. Weltmer to-day.— Nevada Post. ht ensued. in which over fifty shots fired. Al McCloskey was killed @Abe Smiley wounded. None of ® pursuers were hurt. Does the | ‘Baby Thrive If not, something must be sre- | | rhe hrGoGeOoOrOo AY i 3 . around Mafeking The three men, miners, entered the | t Satan oo oe e | this committee was m: manifest | ; = Sage mel association got trail of the} paige ; . a takes Hood rsape finds inits Heves and followed the After | asc night when 106 enlisted armed | . . rem. Alter se x e ack | use pure, rich blood and consequent- fiding fifteen miles the thieves. five in | en patrolled the city on horsebac k Te case Sanath i . mber, were encour A fleree | 10 & body, and about 150 men pa- | +¥ S00¢ eae ese MAFEKING RELIEVED. The Lifting of the Siege Is Re- ported Officially in London A FIGHT OF SEVEN MONTHS. Communication Was Cut off Octeber 12, 1899, Two Days After the War Began. London, Jan. 18, 9:16 p. m.—Matfe- king has been relieved. A dispatch received here from Pre- toria to-night says: “It was officially announced to-day that when the laagers and forts ad been severely bombarded the siege had been abon- doned anda British force from the south taking possession of the place. “President Steyn left here for the Free State last night. Addressing a crowd upon the platform, he urged them to be of good cheer. “It is reported that 5,000 British troops have surrounded Chr and the landrost and other o have been taken prisoners. James Milne, the correspondent of the Reut- jer Telegram company, who has been a prisoner here, was liberated and es- corted to the border this mornin Itissaid that the Mafeking re force left Bloemfontein at thet ning of May and marched st across the country toward the passing to the rear of the Bo at Fourteen Streams. It is that satisfactory news of the progress of this force was received May 11 Among the defenders of the town were Lord Edward Cecil, son of Lord Salisbury, and Lord Charles Caven- dish Bentinck. ady Sarah Wilso1 was another titled person who passe through the siege. Mafeking has been under siege for sevenmonths. October 12—only two days after the arrival of the Boer ul timatum in England—the crossed the western border of the Transvaal forty miles south of Maie- king and cut the railway and the tel- yh. From that day Mafeking isolated. Almost immediately after the cut- ting of the railway came the attack upon Lieut. Nesbitt’s armored train south of Mafeking—the ‘‘tirst blood™ of war. Two days later the Boers at- 2d the town, thinking to take it They reckoned without their soers it out news of the at- laconic little message All right.” down to tack in a “Fight, Monday ien the Boers settled bombard the town with nine guns, one of them a heavy Krupp. After some days of pounding a Boer mes- senge ne in with a white flag sug gesting surrender. Baden-Powell was asleep when the flag came in, but he was awakened to receive the messen- ger He gave the Boer a good lunch l asked him to tell his master. Cronje, that he would let him know when he had ha x Mafeking is on railroad, about 2¢ Kimberley. At t t had 7,500 1 to Cairo north of veginning of the ive and 1,000 j ants defenders numbered about S00 men, many of them i lars, while the attacking force was estimated to contain as igh as ten times that number. Aguinaldo’s Latest Ruling. —A proclam } been ss and that hence it cannot arms at Wrong with its food. If the mother’s milk doesn’t nour- ish it, she needs SCOTT'S EMULSION. It supplies the elements of fat required for the baby. If baby is not Rourished by its artificial food, then it requires Scott's Emulsion % Naif a teaspoonful three }or four times a day in its bottle will have the desired effect. It seems to have a b Magica! effect upon babies rl and children. A fifty-cent ¢,Tpe couple were employed at the bottle will prove the truth 2) children were inmates. ——————_~| money on this of our statements. Searching parties were organized | time to buy gl rail of t or an Should be taken in summer as end ie ie ie pie neato aa res well as winter. If he Alpi ht . et # Soe ie : . and $1.00, all druggists. s caught he will certainly be SCoTTS BOWNE, Chemists. ‘New York. | lynched if brought back to this city, : iso intense is the feeling. < and his wife only one block from Main street, wher i ected by the police, six she d at the holdups and they v wer Negro’s Brutal Crime. , Colo., quarrel wit lern, a negro, formerly | May 20.—Frer We PS By Calvin a corpor: al t We have about ted g Glass and € very plai the very and _ fired, the latter gi ustantly, the othe girl living for some hours. tend to close out} the entire stock AT ONCE, at one-| | third off for spot cash. Noth n this line only for CASH Now is your! county De D> GrOrGrO rPehi Dr DrOrPerOOr HoH Oo Pe Ordro hor sale. or chinaware at | less than wholesale prices. j Yours truly, WILLIAMS BROS. } | » captured. It Ibles. 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It is built by wis ners. sold by winners and owned by winners everywhere. When you aor a mower start cutting in the heaviest. toughest grass without backing: # team or bending a straw you will find the name ‘Deering’ on it. & Deering Ideal Mower runs on roller and ball bearings. DEERING ALL STEEL HAY RAKES. ted, wll hay rake a All levers within handy reach. Has oil tempered steel teeth steel wheels and simple dumping device, all told, it is the best the market. DEERING BINDER TWINE pound and is the best deciae and you will have no trowt i is the smoothest, goes farther to tl for the farmerto buy. Buy Deering the field. Don’t forget DEERING HARVESTER OIL, Best on earth. the Filipi-| + tinware opper ware (lee 6 n’s fin coffees rters for Screen Door ing Ei ingee Vomiverkh . Barb Wire, Salt, Jre