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Presiden . 4 t. " GAPITAL, $75,000. 1, — V6 1} Bates County Investment Co., IBUTLER, MO rOapital, J Money 4 all lands and town lots in Bates county. Choice said to be in N. Ses ee Oe ities always on hand and forsale. Abstracts of title els shed a eae farnished, titles examined and all kinds of real estate | bride says she does not care if he | papers drawn. | never comes back, if she can recover Hon. J. B, NEwsrery J.C Uvaga, ’ acelin ¥. J. Traaeeident. Vice-President. Sec’y. & Treas j her property. Jno. C Hayes, Abstractor. 8. F. Warnocg, Notary. $ Mrs Hutchinson has brought suit ; sn RARRAPLIRRAGS RARARRAR RARARA > |in the supreme court to have the RRPPRPPPPL PRP PDPPPDPP I - Conger Made Reservations. | Washington, Dec. 26.—It develop: | edto-day that M signing the agreemen Prince Ching on Monday, made se, egralimportantreservations. 4 these reservations are the foll Swing: | Rejection of the terms agry by the Powers and presen4 Chinese envoys does nof# bind the United States to join thé other Pow- ers in resuming hostilities. The United States are not bound to maintain permanent guards in China or to prevent the importation ofarms and ammunition. Otber reservations were made by not be made public by Secretary Hay until he receives from the Minister the text of the language he em- ployed. Mr. Conger, of course, acted under instructions in appending to the agreement a statement of the posi- tion of the United States. The\au- thorities were apprehensive that the Powers, in case of the refusal of China to accede to the demands, would be | | | Mr. Conger, but their character will | RPL PPL PRELALLLEPPLAE PRLLLLPE APLLELLPS HON.J. B. NEWBEBRY, THE BATES COUNTY BANK, BuoTi.ER, Mo. Successor to BATES COUNTY NATIONAL BANK, EstaBLisueD Dec. -3- to loan on real estate, at low rates. inister Conger, in| taky$ “a hopeful view of the situa- tdrafted by the,| ti6n,” says the Pekin correspondent Ministers in Pekin and presented toy‘ of the Morning Post, wiring Monday, | “and thinks that a settlement will be g | effected; but he declares that | press | | | | 1 under the impression that by sign- ing the agreement this government was pledged to enforce compliance with the terms. The President did not propose to be placed in any such position, and he directed Mr. Conger, therefore, to make clear the attitude of the United States There is probably no disease Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment is daily curing cases of years’ standing olitehing and bleeding piles. The cure begins on the first application, alittle perseverance makes the cure complete. Price 50 cents inbottles. Tubes, 75 cents. For sale by H. L. Tucker. Teacher Nearly Asphyxiated. Jefferson City, Dec. 27.—Miss Cora ae ™ _ Thor pson, a teacher from Eldorado 3 Springs, came near dying here at the city hotel this morning from asphys- lation. She arrived on the early Morning train, to attend the state teachers’ association. She went to the City hotel at 4 o'clock. She re- tired, leaving an order to be called @t7:30 o'clock. The hotel porter falled at her room, but there was no Tesponse. After repeated calls the Proprietor was summoned and the door was forced open. The young Woman was found in a semi-conscious fondition. Two physicians were at enee called in. The patient recover- td. She had evidently blown the gas Outor turned it off and then on again, as the gas was found escaping. She said she can recall nothing con- Cerning the affair and says her condi- was due to riding on the train Sad that she is subject to attacks of that nature after being on the train Several hours. Never try to coax a cold or cough, We the remedy that unfailingly con- wers both. “Ballard’s Horehound 25 L. gvc wax dle i troubles. Price For sale by H. candies fo: most elabo; tage ot mans and the most deticat: a STANDARD OF oo. and sold everywhere. vreat specific for all} | | | i | | | | more | he distressing and annoying than piles. | sufficiently large at AGED WIFE ASKS COURTS TO | J. C.CLARE, RESTORE $3,000,000 ESTATE. | Vice-Pres’t. Cashier | | Says She Was Induced by Fraud and! Deceit to Deed Her Property to Her Youthful Husband. 1870. ‘ew York, Dec. 27.—Not quite one { ‘4 { ‘ A General Banking Business Transacted§ } year married, Mrs. Louisa C. Hutch- inson, who at the age of 79 was wed to Willard H. Hutchinson, 23 3 old, now claims that he Pars induced her to deed all her property, which she saysis worth $3,000,000, to him and | Paul Sheldon, a lawyer, on July 18 }last. Hutehinson is an actor and if BS0,0o0Oo. Abstracts of deed of transfer canceHed and declar- ed nulland void, on the ground of fraud, and her attorneys, Stickney, to-day obtain Spencer and Ordway ventritt, ting ed an or -from Judge jin the supreme court, dir ser- | vice of the summons and coinplaiut Tithe action to be made by publica tion. Acconmpadyg Mrs. Huichin Will Not Recognize Empress. son’s affidavit declarip that her Londfn, Dec. 27— "Mr. Conger | bUsband cannot be found, is ants fidavit by Fred H Adams, in which he says Hutchinson is at present in New Orleans playing with a theatri- cal company on the road In detailing her experienc Mrs. Hutchinson marriage to Hutchinson took place on Feb. 14, 1900, after they had been acquaint- ed for two years. She was then 79, while he-was approaching his 23rd birthday. She had traveled with him through the country and had furnished him with money and paid no one her says of the envoys will recognize the Em- Dowager officially, although all are aware that she has long exer- cised the supreme power He believes the crisis will result im the initiation of reforms in China. “Senor de Cologan, the Spanish Minister, fears that the the joint note, after general accept- ance, will extend for a year or more “It is rumored that numerous vil- lages east of Pekin are combining to exterminate native Christians, sev- decision of all his expenses, even to buying his clothes. She fell in love with him and be- lieved in and trusted him implicitly and their acquaintance ended in their union. She was a believer in spirit- ualism and he told her, she declares that he had received tion from her dead son who advised that they get married. She believed that Hutchinson had received such a communication from her son and it was on this representation that she consented to the marriage. eral of whom have been burned in a local temple. : a communica See two girls in another column gathering grapes for Sprer's wine. Read all all about them, Speer’s wines are unexcelled by any in the world. American Institute Farmer’s Club. Report tre wines of Alfred Speer. of Passaic, New Jersey, the most reliably and his Oporto Grape Wine as superior to any in the world. China Is Not Willing. Pekin, Dec. 27.—Li and Prince Ching, the Chinese peace commissioners, have heard from the Prince Ching After the honeymoon they came to this city and on April 10 registered at the Hoffman That after- noon, the old lady says, Hutchinson rushed into her apartmentsinastate Hung Chang house. emperor, Kwang Su. called upon Earl Li for consultation, remaining overan hour. The em- peror objects strenuously to reduc- ing the forts, and also to allowing permanent legation guards, which, ems to think, could be made of great excitement and told her that her relatives, who were incensed at her on account of his marriage t6 her, were about to have her declared insane and committed to an asylum, so that they might get her property. any time it|She believed hisstatements and then, was desired, to menace the court] it is declared, he told her the only itself. After the conference it was] way to avoid the confiscation of her property was to make it over to him by deed. This having been done her relatives would have to take any further steps to have her declared incompetent to manage her own affairs. She agreed tothe transfer. Hutcl.- inson said he would call a lawyer in consultation and have him fix up the papers. He subsequently turned up with Sheldon and, it is asserted, a deed was made by which she hand- ed over her entire ‘estate to her hus- band and Sheldon. They told her, she says, that as soon as the trouble with her relatives blew her property would be reconveyed to her. Sometime afterward she be- came suspicious and dissatisfied and asked that her property be trans- ferred back to her. Hutchinson decided to hold further communica- tion withthe court before seeing the ministers. no reason Handsome Elk in Wrath. Chamberlain, S. D., Dee. 26.—News has reached the city from the Brule Indian agency that Handsome Elk the most dangerous and desperate his a redskin of the northwest, béat squaw ina brutal with neck yoke. It is thought the squaw will Elk then another Indian woman andscalped ber Then arming himself with rifle and other firearms, he went into the hills a short distance from his home and left word that friend or foe must not approach him. manner die. siezed his over White’s Cream Vermifuge removes the unhealthy issue upon which : : Soe worms thrive; it brings, and quickly would not consent to this, but, it is a healthy condition of body, where|said, induced her to execute’ a new worms cannot exist. Price 2 v' St. deed, by which her estate was placed For sale by H. L. Tucker. in trust in the hands of her husband and Sheldon. According to this arrangement the Did a Blonde Woman Do It? Indianapolis, ind., Dec. 27.—W. H. | income was to be equally divided be- Smythe, grand secretary of the} tween Hutchinson and his wife. Grand Lodge A. F. & A. M.of Indi-| Later on, Mrs. Hutchinson s she learned that her relatives had no idea of attempting to get mitted as a lunatic, and that she had ana, was shot down in his office to- day at noon and probably fatally her com- wounded. Itis rumored a blonde woman did the shooting. Smythe] been grossly deceived by her hus- will not talk. band and Sheldon. Shecharges that = ae they jointly engaged in scheme t $100 Reward S1lov. e) oe eng aged in a eme to The readers ot this paper will be pleas-| defraud her of her property. Mrs. ed to learn that there is at least one} Hutchinson says she has awakened | dreaded disease that science has been from her spiritual dream and that able to cure in all its stages, and that is sent he knows now her Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the son never only positive cure known to the medica any mess > to her through Hutch- raternity. Ca. ie |. inson. Hutchinson is the fourth husband of the complainant They were mar- ried in Richmond, Va., on last St. Valentine’s Day. Mrs. Hutchinson’s Freder- Wm previous husbands were Dr. ick Augustus Caidwell. Col Tompkins and Cornelius B. i She inherited from them $73,000,000. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchison lived a various hotels in this city t 1 else- he was under treatment for prostration and did not wish to an- | noy his bride. Chicago Physicians Make a New ~ | where and frequently quarreled. Last | August it was reported that they | had separated. phatically denied the rumorand said | Three Bank Failures Caused Runs on | Nimrods Having no Permits Will Lose there had been no trouble. was then stopping at the Park Ave | nue Hotel and he was making his | home at the Hotel Victoria. The |™ore Saving bank depositors are in| der issued by Indian agent Shoe reason for this, he stated, was that | the throes of a financial panic as a|to arrest parties in the India result of the failure of three banks the American National, the Old Town | bank Mr. Hutchinson em- | His wife | nervous SALT GIVES HEART ACTION. Di | covery That Creates a Furor ia the Profession. Chicago, il., Dee plain, every-day salt, or 26.—Salt, just jium chlo- ride, as the chemists call it, is about to take a new | two University of Chicago professors ylace in the world, for working in the quiet of their labora-| 4¢ the kind in tt UNC ithat itis the lon lif tories have fe sought-for elixir of found that sodium ride, graduated « or sal t tion, when to sol right p which has oportions, will cause a heart | to action to ] do once ceased beat take up its rhythr and ts work In they have found that a rie revive life that is ex- ave failed to find 7 . ey:,.. matheir many the quintessence of lite in : " after ag other words, | in. certain salt ti After alchemists bi . 5 edven- fanciful combinations, \three to go | hi t r e t They have} 4, turers have failed to find their my ical fountains of youth, and scientists immemoria have failed to find the reason of the beat, it has remained for Prof. J. Loeb and Prof. D. J. Ling modest and hard working professors at the University of Chicago, to find that salt, the ence, has in it the mag and scholars from time two commonest thing iv power of giving life to a heart thatisstilled. ic The Great Modern Newspaper. When all that portion of the United States west of the Missouri and Kaw rivers was a trackless wilderness, nearly a half century ago, the first issue of one of the world’s appeared. St which was then a town on the western frontier of civil- ization, has developed greatest hewspapers Louis, mere overgrown into a great the newsgatherer, the St. commercial metropolis, and great modern Louis Globe-Democrat, has kept pace with the progress of its city and sec- tion. to the tutor, the youth’s counselor, the wo- the farmer's in- Its circulation It has been, from its first issue present time, the children’s man’s companion, structor and friend. extends to every state and territory in the union, to Canada and Mexico, and te every part of the world where there are readers of the English lan- guage. It ought to be in your home during the coming year. See adver- tisement elsewhere in this issue. One Kilied and Ten Hurt, Bristol, Tenn., Dec. 27.—Details of the riot at Stonega, Va., show one mau killed and ten wounded. Fora short while there was a fierce battle between natives and Italians, caused by a dog fight and the free use of whisky. Bruce. who pierced by a ball from an Italian's Winchester and fell, fatally wounded, was a native of Richmond, Ill, but had-resided in West Virginia. His widow and two littlechildren survive him. Bruce was not engaged in the riot and was thirty yardsaway when shot. Seven natives and three Ital- ians had been wounded when officers had quelled the disturbance. There was aconsuming sentiment among the mountaineers to lynch the Ital- ians, and the officers found it able to hurry the latter away Wise, Va, on a special train. remains of Bruce will West Virginia. George was advis- to The 1 to be shippec Cattle Stampeded in Armourdale. | Kansas City, Dee. 27.—Four hun- | dred Texascattle stampeded throug the streets of Armourdale this afte {noon, wrecking fences and terrifxi the populace. | The herd was big and the roar it lereated was so loud that the public was warned in time, preventing per | sonal injuries. One steer, not content with explor their fen jing lawns and jumping | rushed pellmell into a grocery sh¢ 'Byt t | was wre i were | turned, show came out the he Counters ove cases smashed. l control of tk four hours had pas )fexP jSame power. A PAN BALTIMORE. | 1 | Other Institutions. Baltimore, Md., Dee. 27.—Balti- and the Economy Savings | bank. The Old Town bank, the last of the into the When r- down, went ands of a receiver yesterday he news got around, a mob ounded the bank building i howl- aT d for their money ill a late hour, tup lispersed This morning the uneasiness w the failures have caused developed into a run on il banks The |Savings bank of Baltimore, one of the oldest and most solid it ons ity, an City Savings bank were witt positors, who th money Ail demands were m ind depos- tors, it is said, will all be satisfied. The ky feeling is almost entirely onfined to in savings ranks ELECTROCUTED AND REVIVED. | Experiments in Electricity De nonstrate | a Strange Scientific Truth St. Joseph, Mo., Dee. 28 —At an iment ina telephone office in - to-day it was demonstrated that be restored wchellinger, « naking @ series this ci Joubt beyond a electricity the n elec- by cal trician of Chicago, the pres- of experiments here, and ence sa a number of persons onal ed in the progress of science, sh the hea acat to death, and when of the feline had long since ceased te beat, Mr. th current of electricity, and the shoc} restored the heart beats, althoug, very feeble first hours after the cat Schellibger reversed at had been pre, nounced dead, it had been restore, to the fullness of life and was 4 playful as ever. \ The famous electrician, Telaa, h life taken by] nterest- Within tw. 8 d HUNTING IN THE TERRITORY. Thei- Outtits. Ardmore, I. T., Dee. 28.—The or felt rr tory for hunting game without a permit is having the desired effect, Killing game for the purpose of ship- ping to markets outside of the terri- tory will not be tolerated Indian Agen 1oenfelt in his order to the Indian police says ‘A great deal of complaint has been made from different parts of the « htry in reference to parties who came up tothe nation to kill and sl game for markets outside th ritory. Youare not suthor- ized to arrest and keep parties u r arrest should you tind them, but you are authe iwh you find such | parties to place n ler urrest and confiscate aps, peltr, te.. that they may have in their Possession rthe purpose of hunt- ing game. You will take t names lof such parties and a list of whatev- jer you may contiseate, and turn the jsame into this office with your re- | port | It Was a Dry Day at Ardmore. Ardmore. 1. T., Dec —Indian Policem Willis the Wells-Fargo Express company’s tind- ing twenty jugs of whisky consigned in Hampton went to ottice Christmas morning and, | | | | to citizens from friends in Texas, took possession of them and emp- tied them into the gutter. The night before he made a similar raid and found thirty jugs, which he smashed. He bousted that Ardmore would have a dry Christmas, and he kept his word. The Wells-Fargo express company will take the matter to the Interior department. With Fires in their Holds. Victoria, B. C., Dec. 28.—The Brit- ish ships Melville Island and Almora, on their arrival at Sydney, told of narrow trom destruction. Fire broke out in the Melville Island Oct. 28, as she was bound to Syd- ney, and for days her crew was kept a 2 escaper asserted the act to be possible, arf, I fichti he fi even proven toa few friends that, | Pusy fahting the flames. a could be accomplished. But t be fireon the Almoraiararte Aug. 9. Two days later she was period of time when life had been e begun were never so fur apart during the experiment to-day. n tinct and the process of restoratid, , caught ina heavy gale, which sent seas on board, and to this fact the captain says the vessel owed her sal- vation for the fire was soon extin- Herbine sweetens the breathe | guished after the gale. brightens the eyes and clears tH) EAS SS See complexion without the slightest effects whatever, and ensures th natural bloom of health. Price 5 cents. For sale by H. L. Tucker. M-s. McKinley Needs a Morning Room From William Curtis’s Washington Letter. That there is either for an extension of the presen white house or the building of a se arate home for the president nobod) It is sufficient to say tha pressing necessit denies. Mrs Mckinley really hasno morning room of her own at all. During th president's busy hours when promi nent men throng in upon him he i obliged to use the library of the exe ecutive mansion to some of the most distinguished of hi visitors. Thus it happens that Mrs. McKinley is frequently obliged te either sit in her bedroom or go down to one of the cheerless state drawin rooms on the first floor. Besid this the white house as state receptions is almost grotesque. “a scene ol and the facilities for handling alarge crowd are exceeded by those in any first class house in New York or Chi cago. Side Lights on History. Chiesgo Tribune At the ark ground, and Noah rented solid and tired of theirlong imprisonment went last on his family, on shore to stretch their legs “| wonder what we'll doforalis accominodaté ©) J. G. Johnson to Stay in Chicago. 3] RAB. EM. A CONSTANT DB UPON THE SYST: 1 accomp. ished i ter shas now!” said Sh ‘Suppose we go! * t into the show business, father We} S r have got Earth’s Greatest and Only an Menagerie of Living Wild A als ‘ ‘I know it ¥ witi are andiences t a ; Jail Delivery Prevented M De Zz st accomplis rs in the 2 i CO. A TLANTA, CA.