The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 27, 1902, Page 9

Some people are so obtuse. TRIBUTE TO NOBLE LIFE. Court of Special Sessions at New York Honors Memory of Mrs. R. 8, Fos- ter, a Prison Missionary, Out of respect for the memory of . Rebecca Salome Foster, who had Tr many years ministered to women pNsoners in the Tombs, and who was burned to death in the Park Ave- nue hotel fire, the court of special sessions at New York city adjourned the other day, after placing upon the record a tribute to her life and char- acter, On motion of District Attor- ney Jerome the court decided to ad- journ after the disposal of the reg- ular prison cases before the judges. The district attorney quent tribute to Mrs. Foster's mem- ory, as did also Justice Holbrook, of the court. District Attorney Jerome said: “If it please your honor: Within a few weeks, and in a territory but lit- tle more than a mile in length and a} few hundred feet in width, in the heart of this great city, there have occurred three appalling disasters. In the early morning of February 22 there came the last of these—the fire at the Park Avenue hotel. There the nd of death touched Rebecca alome Foster. For many years she came and went among us with but a single purpose, “That men might rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things.’ “There is a word which is seldom used. To us, who in the administra- tion of the criminal law are daily brought into contact with the misfor- tunes and sin of humanity, it seems almost a lost word. It is the word ‘holy.’ In all that that word means to English-speaking peoples it seems to me that it could be applied to her. She was indeed a ‘holy woman.’ It hardly becomes us to do aught else than to testify in reverent. si- lence our love and respect. “T move this honorable court that when it has disposed of the cases on its calendar where the defendants are in prison that it adjourn for the day in respect for the memory of Rebecca Salome Foster and that * suitable minute’ be spread upon the records.” LOYAL TO LLINOIS. School-Teacher Marry in We Who Would Not in and So Was Is Bridge, Mrs. Fannie Carlson, of Chicago, was married to Prof. C. 2. Greenup, a well-known St. Louis educator, in an automobile while crossing the Mississippi river on the Eades bridge the other day because she felt that she ought to be loyal to the state of Tllinois, where she has lived for 20 years. Mrs. Carlson, a school teacher, was visiting St. Louis on an educational mission, when she met Prof, Greenup, who proposed marriage. Mrs, Carl- son accepted, stipulating that the wedding must occur in Hlinois. It was impossible for Prof, Green- up to visit Chicago for the ceremony, and the plan as carried out was finally decided on. When the party, composed of friends of the groom and a minister, ‘had passed half way over the bridge the driver rang the gong as a signal, and the ceremony was performed while the automobile was running at a lively rate toward the Tinos. auOres TO DRAIN LAKE FOR GEMS. English Syndicate Which Confident- ly Expects to Secure F Wealth in Central’ The parliamentary correspondent of the London Daily Mail says that sev- eral members of parliament have formed a syndicate to recover the jew- els and gold in the sacred lake in Co- lombia, Central America, which is formed in the crater of an extinct vol- cano close to the emerald mines. Humboldt speaks of emeralds depos- ited in this lake worth millions of pounds, and Indians continue to find stones and gold by the water's edge after storms. The Spaniards made ef- forts to drain the lake 300 years ago, but their engineering appliances were defective. The present syndicate is attacking the lake from beneath its basin. A tun- nel has been cut aud a shaft will be made to tap the lake, with screens to catch any stones that may be dis- lodged, and rifles of mercury to ar- rest the gold. irl Kills Wolf and Saves Dog. In a fierce struggle with a large gray wolf, Miss Ethel Hoover, of Le- ola, S. D., saved the life of her shep- herd dog and protected persons in her home from possible injury. The beast, belonging to one of the numerous packs of the cattle ranges, crossed the Missouri river on the ice, and entering the yard of Miss Hoov- er’s home, attacked the dog. The animals, snarling and snapping, fought for a long time. When the dog was nearly exhausted Miss Hoover rushed from her home with a hatchet and ran up to the strug- gling beasts. The wolf turned and attacked her, but she struck the beast on the head, killing it in- stantly. An Obtuse Student, Students at an Ohio college hazed @ new man the other night by gag- ging and blinding him and then drop- ping him 20 feet down a coal hole. Yet, says the Chicago Record-Herald, the victim failed to see the joke, Her Motive, An American lady has broken her entto marry a French count, engagem _and the Chicago Record-Herald _re- + marks that she must know of a ‘marquise who is in the market. paid an elo-; (CIGARETTES BARRED | department. | Northwestern Academy Students Warned by Head of School. Low Record of Those Who Smoke Compels Action in Interest of Boys — Students Must Stop Smoking or Quit the School. atl Students in the preparatory depart- ment of Northwestern university at Evanston, Ill, are invited to either stop smoking cigarettes or leave the school. There is no uncertainty about the invitation and so thoroughly has it been considered that arrangements have been made to pay back to those i who choose the way of the paper pipe the money that they have paid as ad- vance tuition. The matter was very clearly laid be- fore the students the other morning at the academy chapel exercises by Herbert F. Fisk, professor of peda- gogy and principal of the preparatory “I have made an arrangement by which your money will be refunded,” said Prof. Fisk. “We do not want you as students if you insist upon smoking cigarettes. Some of the failures in the recent semester examinations are directly traceable to cigarette smok- ing and one young man has been brave enough to tell me personally that he failed because of his excessive use of cigarettes.” These startling declarations by Prof. Fisk caused great uneasiness among the 300 boys at the chapel serv- ices and the girls and young women looked first at the principal of the academy and then at the other side of the room, where the boys were seated. “One of your number,” continued Prof, Fisk, “told me that the major- ity of the boys in this school smoke cigarettes, but I am inclined to think that he is mistaken, Some of you do, however, and the marks of a cigarette smoker are quite evident, “It is a matter of record that four- fifths of the cigarette smokers among students fail sooner or later. Nearly all of the boys who failed in the semester examinations use ciga ettes. This should be evidence Pnoug in By hy boy who wi consider the matter to quit at once. “It is the testimony of many physi- cians that smoking of any kind is in- jurious to the youth, and T do not know of any who will not say that cigarette smoking works harm to the boy. No cigarette smoker is in very good standing in this school. “We are willing to help any boy who wishes to stop smoking, and Task any of you who desire to quit to come and see me and | will at- tempt to help you. Of the 75 boys who stand highest in their classes in the academy only one is a cigar- ette smoker, while 57 per cent, of the 7% boys who stand lowest in their classes are cigarette smokers. I beg of you boys to quit the habit at once.” ALL RAIL ROUTE TO ASIA. Capitalists Promise Parlor Car Trip from California to Russia in Five Years, From San Francisco to St. Peters- burg by rail in twelve days in parlor ears, with no more of a water voyage than_a_30-mile transfer across Behr- ing strait in enormous steel lighters. This is the trip promised five ye hence by New York, Seattle, Denver and Washington capita . engineers and explorers who have completed the preliminary work and have = ar- ranged to start the building of-the Trans-Alaskan railroad on April 15. This line, which will be 850 miles in length, will open up one of the rich- est countries in the world. More in- teresting and spectacular than that is the certainty of its making what will be practically an all-rail route to Asia. D. S. Granger, a Seattle capitalist, who was for many years connected with the Burlington road, and J. C. Cornforth, of Denver and Skaguay, have spent the past five years on the project. STEAM CARRIAGES IN LONDON. The Old Clumsy Two-Horse Omni- buses Are Supplanted by a New Vehicle. Those clumsy and lumbering, but withal picturesque, vehicles which are the wonder of every visitor to London, will not much longer be al- lowed to enjoy a monopoly of Lon- don’s narrow streets. The two-horse omnibus has had its day. Even Lon- don is awakening to that fact. The Strand was invaded the other day in the neighborhood of Charing Cross by a new steam carriage, which looked curiously out of place amid the procession one is accustomed to see there. The new omnibus went down Whitehall to Scotland Yard, where it was inspected for a license. The vehicle is a type of those which are to be placed in service next month. It seats 36 and has a speed of 15 miles an hour. Another Tradition Broken, Boston is now getting fish from the Pacific, says the St. Louis Post-Dis- patch. Is it possible that the Bos- tonese have flopped from codfish to Puget sound salmon? Women in Baden Universities. Women are now admitted to the two universities in Baden, but they have not been able to secure permis< sion to study dentistry. “The Spring Song. In spring, says the St. Louis Star, | 88! a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of how much he can get on his winter overcoat. Trem Levy's. Grand Exhibition Levy's. of the greatest lines 9' merchandise In Every Department. We have spared no time nor labor to secure the greatest variety of merchandise ever-shown by any house in the south- west. DRY GOODS DEPARTMi: iti We show the handsomest line of woo! fabries in plain and fancy color- ing, especially adapted for the Spring season. A beautiful line of plain and faney colorings of Silks, Nuns Veilings, and Japanese Silks, plain and fancy. Plain and fancy Shallives, trimmings to mateh any color of cloth, Lawns, White Goods, Percales, Tartalus shows anything ‘ike them, Laces and Embroideries of the greatest variety, Table Linens, Lunch Cloths, Dresser Scaris in endless varieties, A complete line of ladies’ and children’s hosiery in black lace stripe aud fancy, at the most popular pric -s ever shown. CARPET DEPARTMENT This department is filled to its utmost capacity consisting of Cotton, All Wool Ingrains, Brussels, Velvets with a complete line of Straw Mat- tings, Art Squares, Ingrains and Royal Weltons. We show the greatest line of Rugs rangings in prices from 25 to $25 each SHOE DEPARTMENT We show the most complete special in designs, no one line of shoes for Men, Women and Children ever shown before, All the best makes that are produced in this country, We assure you our prices to be 25 per cent less than you can buy them elsewhere, CLOTHING DEPARTMENT Our Clothing and Gents Furnishing Goods department is fully equip: ped in every branch, Suits for men, suits for youths, suits for children, In fact, you do not have to go out of our’ house to pur- chase your supplies for your entire family, male or female, @ur aim has been and is to-day to give the best value suits for boys and that possibly not please you, return it in as good condition as you received) it ind your money will be refunded. — We could quote you a great long list: of prices, but we find it unnecessary, as the only way for you to ascertain that we give you the best goods for the least money is by visiting our mammoth establishment, see the goods and hear the prices, We have gentlemanly salesmen that will gladly show vou anything you wish to see and they will convince you at a glance that you will get the best value at the lowest price. We handle none but reliable merchandise and represent them as ther are, None bnt up-to-date goods in every department. : Be sure and visit us before you make your siring purchases in either Dry Goods. Carpets, Clothing and Shoes, SAM LEVY & CO. popes SOI EE & REED BEY MISSOURI STATE BANK, OF BUTLER. MISSOURI. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS - - : Has 46 stockholders living in Bates County. successful experience, loans Money, Receives Deposits and transacts a General Banking Business. We solicit your business, offering absolute security for your deposit with every facility that is consistent with safe banking, ALWAYS HAVE MONEY ‘0 LOAN, -DIRECTORS J. M. Christy, A, B. Owen, Booker Powell. ©. R. Radfood, T. J. Wright J. R, JENKINS, Casuikr, Wm. E. WALTON, NEE ee 360,500.00. 21 years of eet ARAL RRAPRPRPRPAD at T. C, Boulware, J. R, Jenkins, Jobn Deerwester, C. H. Dutcher, fieo, L, Smith, Frank M, Voris, Win. E. Walton, N. L. Whipple, PRA ARARARARARAAFPAR ~ PREs. | i ; II OIL Oh LOL Oe WALTON TRUST CO. OF BUTLER MISSOURI. Capital, Surplus and Profits : : 368,300.00. Always has ready money on hand to be loaned on farms in Bates, Vernon and Barton countie-, Missouri, at the q Very Lowest Rates of Interest. Every land owner wanting a loan should call and get our rates before borrowing of others, We have a full and q complete abstract of title to every acre of land or town lot in Bates County from the U.S. patent down to date, that we keep up with the records daily. We furnish reliable Abstracts at reasonable prices. interest Paid on Time Deposits -——DIRECTORS:. J, Everingham, Wm. W. Trigg, Booker Powell, C. R. Radford, C. H. Dutcher, Sam Levy, T. J. Wright, ee ALLEN, Skcy. Wm. E. WALTON, PREs. cai caciemanaian RPRARRA DR RARARARARR ALR ARRFRRARA J, R. Jenkins, T. C. Boulware, Wm. E. Walton, John Deerwester, Frank M. Voris, | | | | Superstition Caused Death. Middletown, N. Y., March 23.—The death of Miss Louise Kinsley near Rathborn Corners, Pa , is believed to have been due to a peculiar supersti- tion which so preyed upon her mind for months past as to cause a grad- ual physical decline against which One day last October Miss Kinsley. accident- pos scalded the household cat. The me afternoon she broke a nme ner ag She began to worry an finally grew ill, continuing to decline until Vesterday, when she deid. Talmage Dangeyously Ill. Washington, March 23.—Dr. T. Dewitt Talmage is lying dangerously ill at his residence on Massachusetts avenue in this city, and the gravest It was suid to-day by a friend of the family that a fatal terminatien would not bea surprise. Dr. Tal- mage returned from a trip to Mexico aweek ago. He was taken ill with a severe cold en route to Washing- ton, and has since been lying in a semicomatose condition. | posts, so we will repair our fence | this week Passaic Breezes horseshoes The boys were pitching |Saturd ay Mr. Long built a hen-house }fenced the yard for Parker. Ike Dawson brought us a load of ind R. M. Wilcox & Co. bought sheep and hogs from J. N. Sharp last week, Mrs. Christabar is quite sick at this writing. Walter Rice is the champion duck killer. He has brought in a number. I. M. Smith, Deep Water's popular candidate for Recorder, here Saturday. He had been away from home two weeks telling the people his wants, P. 2 &, was our wide-awake business men, are having a good trade, Mosier & Elgin were here afew days since breaking a fine mule. If you want a hair cut or asmooth shave when in Passaic, give WillZim- mer a trial, shop in southwest corner of BP. & Z.’s store, H. Hambury was helping Tathwell at the elevator last week Chas. Garrlson sold SO acres south of Wileox’s and 160 acres one mile south toa Kansas man Mes, ©, Hendrick is convalescent, Walls and our shoemen, Our road boss, Geo, Tom Zimmer are Jake Maddy, will open a road north and south, | mile east of Prairie Rose schoolhouse. Graham and Billings loaded three ears with stock, implements &e,, and left for Wyoming ‘Tuesday, Their families will follow a few days later, Their many friends wish them the best of sucess. May they not be dis- appointed in the country The children of Tart fand 5 miles west pheumonia tnd Patton, of here, bave Dugan, west of cancer, [twas The baby of John Elkhart, died of ter him, ‘while you're about it, you might tell then. that no otherhuman being will ever see me in another.’ ” proved, $60 acres in whea: open for spring crop, 160. rs fene- fears are entertained for hisrecovery. | “l for pasture. improvements only and get the ‘and on the “Wheat Payment Plan. No limit of time. wheat payment plan. you pay no in- terest. This must be taxen soon, or it, will be withdrawn. portation. buried at Johnstown, [owas a grandehild of John Dawson and wile, of Spruce township Miss Annie Radcliff is sick at this writing. Fletch up with the country and gather in the coin. He will be a good patron of Unele Sam's postal departinent, Harry Robinson visited at the Hotel de Tathwell Sunday. The new organ in position Sunday at the church and used for S.S. song services. An engine pulled up to the Cal. Robinson shop a few evenings since for repairs. Cal. repairs anything from a threshing machine down to the smallest Squire Lotspeich sold a mule for $175. Howdoes that sound for aard times? {uttles goes west to grow was Patrons, remember the seliool meet- ing the second Tuesday in April at 2 pom, C. M, buyer Decker, the hustling stock and shipper. called in our vil- ast week on business. lage Harry Funk drove over northwest to look aiter his farm interests. Unele Bruce Radcliff is improving. Fred Harden eilled at the postot- fice Sunday and got a St day Globe. Henry Wileos bought M. Wileox Louis Sun- a horse of his uncle, R PA? When Vest Ran Away. While Senator Vest was speaking in the United States Senate on the 11th inst., Senator Allison told a story about him: “Vest was a member of the Confed- erate Congress in the Civil war. Some of his constituents alleged that being an able-bodied man, it would be just as well if he took a gun and went out and did some fighting instead of loaf- ing around Richmond making laws. “Vest acquiesced. He got a gun and went to war. His first engage- ment was a little affair in which the Confederates were whipped. They started to retreat Vest well up tothe front. Hemet a man from his own town in Missouri. ‘Say, Jim,’ said Vest, ‘when you go back home tell those folks you have seen me ina battle.’ « ‘Allright,’ away. “ ‘And say, Jim,’ replied Jim, startling shouted Vest af- A Snap. 640 acres of good lund well im- 120 acres You pay cash «it the When you buy on vu» Half fare trans- E. B. Arkinson, 19-4t Grainfield, Kan. ae ad ae ame STUART FIFE IS SET FREE. Not Guilty of the-Murder of Richardson. Mo., March 21.—When at 9 o'clock this morn- ing, the jury in the case of Stewart Fife, charged with the murder of Frank W. Richardson at the home of the victim, Christmas, eve, 1900, re- turned a verdict of acquittal. It is said that only one ballot was taken und that from the beginning the jurors stood wmanimously for ac- quittal, The case went to the jury last evening. Savannah, court opened When the verdict was announced, there was a dramatic scene in the courtroom. Mrs, Fife, the mother of the accused, sprang forward and embraced her son, shouting for joy all the while. Mrs, Fife is of a very nervous temperament and has suffer- ed from hysteria at intervals ever since her son was arrested, Mrs. Richardson, widow of the mur- dered man, was also in the court- room and gave vent to her emotion, by weeping silently, with her face burried in her hands. Thomas Fife, father of the young man on trial declared in open court that the verdict was in accordance with his expectations and that he had known from the beginning that his son had nothing to do with the murder of Richardson Young Fife himself was so over- come that he could not speak, Al- though Judge Burnes, preliminary to the rendering of the verdict, issued anorder against any demonstration, it was found impossible to preserve absohite quiet, This is the secoud trial in the Rich- ardson murder, Mrs. Richardson, the widow, having been acquitted only a few weeks ago, and still the mystery of Frank Richardson's murder is un- solved,. No other indietments are am *% $F oR, pen Tid the Investigation iahow probably closed so) far as the courts are concerned mi The only witnesses to the murder arethe man who tired the shot and Mrs. Richardson, ‘The latter asserts that she does not know, and did not see the person who committed the crime, WOMAN MARRIED WOMAN, Death Under Mysterious Circumstances Reveals Strange Affair. Canandaigua, N. Y., Mareh 22.—A person who was known here for five years as William (. Howard, died suddenly Wednesday night and an au- topay showed that the supposed man was a Woman. Howard, who was about 50 years old, came here five years ago with a womin who was known as Mrs. How- ard. Two children were born to the supposed wife. The dead worked for farmers in the neighbor- hood and those most intimately ac- quainted with the family never had the slightest suspicion that she was not a man. The cause of the wo- man’s death isa mystery. On Wed- nesday night she took two tablets for throat affection and was dead in 10 minutes. The medicine was sent from Wellsville, this state, where rela- tives reside. The authorities are completely mystified as to all matters touching upon the woman's life. They de not even know her right name. Two men claiming to be half brothers, at- tended the funeral, but refused to divulge any information. Aninquest isto be held and some light may then be thrown upon the strange case. lt developed to-night that the old- est of the Howard children was an adopted one. Another development to-night was the person known here as William C, Howard was Alice M. Howard and that she went through a marriage ceremony in 1892 with Edith Dyer. woman The Island Is Ready. Savannah, Ga., Mareh 2:3.—Gover- nor General Wood, of Cuba, who stopped here on his way to Washing- ton, sald: “The island is ready now to be turned over to the Cubans. “T will remain in Cuba a few weeks after the change in governments and we will probably keep a few troops on the island for a time after the change. It seems to be the wish of the Cubans that we do that.” General Wood says that unless a greater reduction in the Cuban tariff on sugar than 20 per cent is made, a crisis may soon be reached in the island’s affairs. The people are de- pending upon the United States giv- ing them a market for their sugar and tobacco.