The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 17, 1902, Page 10

nee ad errmet be nes eet 2 et ner ED NR a Sa ne re — Two Were Shet in Court. Incendiary Fire Occurred at Cassville. Monett, Mo., April 12.—The little Catlettsburg, April 10.— city of Cassville, the county-seat of GeorgeCoakeey, who had justreturn- | sight page paper, in magazine form, Kentucky Youth Made Ridiculous | Barry county, was the scene of in- ed from the Philippines, where serv- tense excitement to-night. edas a private in the army, shot The largest fire in the history of Marshal Marcum, of Fallsburg, dead the town broke out early to-night in the Police Court at that place. and theevidences on incendiarismare Police Justice Edward Webb then strong. When fire was seen issuing shot Coaksey as he sat on the bench. from the large flouring mill of S. P.|Coaksey will die. He bad been ar- Reynolds & Co., two suspicious char- rested on a charge of disturbing the acters were seen running away from | peace while drunk. the building. They were at once fired upon by the nightwatchman. Oue of them was crippled but both escaped in the melee. The mill and contents were totally destroyed. The elevator contained 2,000 bushels of wheat and 1,500 pounds of flour. The loss isestimat- ed at $8,00, with $2,000 insurance. When he heard the alarm, Mr. Rey- nolds, who lives near the mill, found A Series of Drives. Pretoria April 9.—The British are making preparations for a great series of “drives” on arrival of rein- forcements. The general outlook for the Boers is said to be most dis- heartening. It is thought here that the bulk of the rebels are only wait- ing a promise that they will not be banished, to come in and surrender. A Most Liberal Offer. The St. Louis Mirror is a twenty- | edited by William Marion Reedy, as- | sisted by a staff of contributorscom- | prising the best writers and literary | authorities on ali current subjects, ' social, religious, scientific, financial, | literary or artistic. The Mirror is a weekly review of men and affairs; a treasury of short | stories and good poetry; a paper in which the best books, best plays and best music are ably reviewed, and all topics of contemporary interest are given careful attention. It is theup- to-date paper for the merchant, the teacher, the professional man, the student, the politician, as well as for woman andthehome. == If you will send us 10c, in silver or stamps, we will mail the Mirror to your address for ten weeks. ; Tae Mirror, St. Louis, Mo. that someone had entered his house . — and stolen the clothing he wore to- day. His purse, containing $300 in cash, was in his pant pocket and and this, together with some papers, was taken wo eee ane Tennessee Farmer Lyuched. PPPPLPPE QAPELA LPS MISSOURI STATE BANK, OF BUTLER, MISSOURI. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS - - — = = $60,500.00. Has 46 stockholders living in Bates County, 21 years of ( lor, Deputy Marshal on the Tennes- successful experience. ‘ { see side of Fulton, was shot down in Loans Money, Receives Deposits and transacts a General { ( cold blood and instantly killed last Banking Business, night at 7 o'clock by Tom Blackard, aged 23 years, a farmer, residing near Dukedom, Tenn. At 10:30 o’elock last night Black- Fulton, Ky., April 10.—Frank Tay- | | safe banking. We solicit your business, offering absolute security for your deposit with every facility that is cons!stent with ALWAYS HAVE MONEY i0 LOAN, ard was taken from the lock-up by a _——D IRECTORS-———- ; mob and havged from a bridge, T. C. Boulware, J, M, Christy, Geo. L, Smith, where he was afterwards found dead J. R. Jenkins, A, B. Owen, Frank M, Voris, John Deerwester, C. H. Dutcher, by officers and citizens, Will Cavender, a saloon man, was accidentally shot in the leg by per- sons who were attempting tocapture Blackard. J. R, JENKINS, Casuixr, A Nearly Fatal Runaway started a horrible ulcer on the leg of J. B. Orner, Franklin Grove, Ill. which defied doctors and allremedies forfour years. Then Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured_hin st_as . boils, burns, bruises, cuts, corns, scalds, skin eruptions and piles 25¢ at H. L, Tucker's drug store. Mound Items, The past week has beet a busy one to the farmers. They have most of the ground plowed ready for planting Dr McFarland is kept busy looking alter the sick. He says the grip has got a strong hold on the people. Cal Robinson is kept busy sharpen- ing plows for the farmers. Chas. Conklin is trimming his hedge fence. He says he is getting tired of them, too much trouble to keep in shape. } R. M. Wilcox is paying a good é price for hogs. He says they are scarce. George Walls has about 25 acres of corn ground ready for planting. W. F. Maddy is putting out a big lot of hog wire fencing. Col. J. N. Sharp is getting ready to _— planta big corn crop, as he says there is money in raising coru and feeding hogs. E. F. Boswell is putting outa large acreage of oats and flax this year. He says his young stock isin good condition for pasturing. We learn that our old friend M. E. Lockard is getting tired of city life. Bro. Scott preached an excellent sermon to an appreciative audience last Sunday. His next appointment here will beon May 11. Everybody invited to come and hear a good ser- mon. J. B. Rice has commenced planting corn. He has 35 acres ready for the planter. Our friends Green Walton, T. K. Liale and D. A. Colyer came out to see us and found us sick. We have been confined to our bed for ten days but we are gaining strength right along. The men that are out for office are the best men of the county and no mistakes will be made. We know we have many warm friends throughout the county and am gladto have met so many of them. If we are defeated will cheer- fully work for the success of the dem- ocratic party. E. that we keep up with the Wm, E. Walton, John Deerwester, Frank M. Voris, C. H. Dutcher, FRANK ALLEN, Skcy, Sam 9900000000000 It pays to heed our health. are those that creep upon any work had better try liable tonic. . W. F. Dovat, - ’ Booker Powell, ©, R, Radford, T. J. Wright, ee he ee eae q eF-BH a | Capital, Surplus and Profits Always has ready woney on hand to beloaned on farms in Bates, Vernon and Barton countie+, Missouri, at the Very Lowest Rates of Interest. Every land owner wanting a loan should call and get our rates before borrowing of others, complete abstract of title to every acre of land or town lot in Bates County from the U. 8. patent down to date, reliable Abstracts at reasonable prices. ‘ aive HEALTH A CHANCE. ~ RADI ARP OPODLLOE OP LELDP LDA. PLPLLPLL H. E. Perera, Wm. E. Walton, N. L. Whipple, { ‘ ws Wo. E. WALTON, PRrEs. SSOURL. 368, 300.00. We have a full aud records daily, Interest Paid on Time Deposits. ——DIRECTORS—— J, Everingham, Wm. W. Trigg, Booker Powell, J. R. Jenkins, T. C. Boulware, C. R. Radford, Levy, T. J. Wright. Wm. E. WALTON, PREs. | We furnish | | ——e The most serious ills us almost unawares. If you are expending energy faster than youmake it the reconing will come. Those who are trying to do well persons’ work while hardly fit to do IMPERIAL BITTERS. It is an effective tonic; a-cure for those minor ail- ments which become serious through neglect. It aids digestion, increases nutrition, overcomes uervous conditions and increasgs vitalenergy. If you feel tired-out, run-down or are conscious of flagging mental or muscular energy. try this re- Money back if it fails to benefit you. 75 CENTS. H. L. TUCKER. Best Drag Store in Bates Co., Butler, Mo. “4 J. B. Duvau. ——_0-——_. | DUVALL & PERCIVAL, Rates of Interest Com: and get our: tates. t SAVED THEN JILTED. by Tennessee Girl. Former’s Threat to Suicide Followed by Appeal of Girl, His Proposal by Return Mail and Her Cut- ting and Witty Reply. W. P. Pelfrey, president of the Suicide club at Compton, Ky., has been declined as a husband by Miss Columbia V. Bess, of Nashville, Tenn.. who sought to prevent the young man from jumping off a cliff and received a proposal the next day thereafter. a pledge that the first member who proposed marriage and was rejected should take his life. Pelfrey was elected president, This officer had to be the first to try his luck. Pel- frey tried and failed and announced the date on which he would fulfill his pledge, but his life was saved in a remarkable manner. Miss Bess read of the club's organ- ization and their pledge, and she wrote to Pelfrey imploring him to reconsider his action. In connection with himself she brought up what other equally as great men had done on like occasions. She pointed out to Pelfrey how he and the others had a chance to become great in after life by marrying a maiden from Tennessee. Pelfrey, who was by no means slow, put his own con- struction on the letter and Miss Bess received this reply: Dear Miss Bess: Your letter advising me to abandon the presidency of the Suicide club and go to Tennessee and get a wife has been received, | am con- vinced that your advice is very timely and every impulse of my nature de- mands that I now ask you to fix a date when you and I may be united in the holy bonds of matrimony. You are the very girl I am after and Go please fix a time not far distant when our hearts may beat as one. W. P. PELFREY. Miss Bess, who is quite a pretty girl, declined to be interviewed, say- ing that she was preparing a letter to give to the papers. Later Miss Bess gave out her answer to Pres- ident Pelfrey, of the Kentucky Sui- cide club, and now this youth may jump off a cliff according to sehed- ter directed to the young man in de- clining his marriage proposal she says: “First, we hear of him allying himself with a suicide club and then he jumps from this slough of despondency into the~sex of matrimony. “Unable to cope with as slight a matter as a rejection In matrimony, yet ready to embrace the trials and tribulations of married life. I trust the days will lengthen when he can find a domestic slave. as his wife would be. He should experience the joys of love and courtship before jump- ing into the matrimonial boat.” DESCENDANTS MUST WORK, Will of Jonathan Clark Provides Only Small Income for the Heirs for Stated Reasons, The will of Jonathan Clark, who for- merly lived at 233 Warren avenue, Chi- cago, and who died at Fruitland, Fla., February 5, makes provision by which the testator believes he will prevent his descendants of the second genera- tion from becoming idle. After mak- ing plans for a final distribution of his estate, following the death of his widow and children, by which plans one-half of the estate is to go to the benefit of schools and charitable insti- tutions, the testator says: “I restrict the legacies of my de- scendants to one-half of my estate in order that they may each have enough to establish them in business, but not enough to support them in idleness.” The estate consists of $600,000 in per- sonal property and $60,000 in realty, and in order that the realty may not be sold at sacrifice the testator pro- vides for the creation of a trust, which is to be handled by Trustees Ed- win F. Bayley, Caroline Patterson and George T. Clark. JURORS PRAY FOR VERDICT. in Murder Trial at Hopkinsville, Ky., the Twelve Men Seek Divine Guidance Before Voting. The verdict sentencing Robert Ran- dolph to the penitentiary for 18 ygars for killing John Ford was reached by the jury at Hopkinsville, Ky., after fervent prayer. When the jurors retired to their room the foreman said: “Gentlemen, this is a serious case we have to decide. A man’s life may be forfeited by our decision. How many Christians are among us?” Nine men raised their hands. “Will one of you pray?” asked the foreman. One of the oldest jurors said he would do his best. All knelt anda most earnest and impressive prayer was offered. ; Balloting was then begun. Several jurors were in favor of a life sentence and others for terms as short as eight years. The jury fitially agreed on 18 years. Ivory Coast Rich in Gold. Surveys which have just been com- | pleted by prospectors of the Ivory Coast Gold Fields company, says a dis- patch to the London Central News! from Grand Bassam, show that there! is blanket ore in an almost me ove line for 11 miles, assaying’ one ounce and upward, This is regarded as one of the: most extraordinary discoveries | ever made. —~ ———+ Recently ten young men“at Comp-}| ton formed a suicide club, signing | | WRITES BOOK ON DEER. | President Roosevelt About to Issue New Volume Giving His Expe- rience in Chase. President Roosevelt has spent some time of late in the preparation of his manuseript for a new book soon to be issued from an eastern publishing house, on the deer of North America. |The scientists who have had the president’s manuscript and illustra- | tions for the book in hand are~sur- | prised at his knowledge of animal | life and his broad and scientific way | of handling matters. This volume is one of a series be- ing edited by Casper Whitney, the j oattor of Outing, and will be issued late in the spring or-in the early summer. The series comprises treat- ises on large game and forest re- serves all over North America, and will be contributed to by a number of able scientists, among them Dr. C, Hart Merriam, a well-known gov- ernment biologist and writer. Those who have had an opportu- nity to judge of the president's forth- | coming book say that while he has not the picturesque handling of lan- guages adapted to describing animal life with which Thompson Seton is endowed, he yet has a clever way of telling the tricks and habits of the deer, of which he has been a pro- digious hunter, and the book will have a larger circle of readers than any of his other books. Though much of the work upon the manuscript was done before he became president of the United States, Mr. Roosevelt has handled a large amount of the matter in con: | nection with .is pressing executive work and other duties. LARGE INCREASE IN NAVY. Indications Point to Congressional Action Which Will Add Many Ships to the List, All indications point to a large in- crease in the navy at this session of congress. ‘The naval committee — is eonsidering the appropriation — bill, which provides for an increase of the naval force both in ships and men, There is scarcely any doubt that the committee will authorize the increase recommenda by the secretary of the navy. his is done there will be three new battleships of the first class, two armored cruisers of the first class, three gunboats of 1,000 tons displace- ment, three gunboats of 200 tons dis- placement for insular service, three picketboats 6f 650 tons displacement, three steel sailing training ships of 2,000 tons displacement, one collier of 15,000 tons displacement, and four tugboats. It is also Highly important that the number of seamen and mapyines be increased as well as the officers. The bill is likely to provide for an in- crease of 3,000 seamen, 750 marines, as well as additions to the corps of constructors and civil engineers. Secretary Long has recommended that the number of lieutenants be increased from 300 to 350, and that the limit of the number of junior lieutenants and ensigns be fixed at 600, which is a large increase. This recommendation is likely to be adopt- ed. Secretary Long again has recom- mended the grade of vice admiral, but there seems some doubt whether this will be agreed to. NORDICA IN A TEMPER. Sings at Concert in Kansas and Finds That Her Music Has Been Trans- mitted by Telephone, Lillian Nordica sang to an audience of 2,000 persons at Wichita, Kan., the other night. A unique feature of the concert was the transmission of the musie by telephone to various parts of the city, also to other cities, even to Kansas City. Receivers the size of the ordinary telephone mouthpiece were placed ‘among the footlights. Mme. Nordica did not learn of the shrewd arrangement for the telephone con- cert until a few minutes before sing- ing the last number. She was indig- nant and almost refused to sing the closing selection. Mme. Nordica said after the concert | that never again would she sing into a telephone, and that hereafter her managers would investigate the stage ; to see if there were any receivers se- ereted. She said that those who heard her by telephone would have a false im- pression of her singing. Bowling Alley in a Charch, Encouraged by its athletic pastor, the Andrew Presbyterian church at Minneapolis has been provided with a bowling alley as an adjunct to the fine new gymnasium on which the church prides itself for the development of muscular Christianity. The only other church in the country which has a bowling alley, it is reported, is the First Presbyterian church of Trenton, N. J. Other churches at Minneapolis it is said will follow the example of the Andrew church. Qualities of True Heroine, A young woman who sang a selection at a local entertainment the other spite of the the encore fiends, to give another song. Noble, true-hearted girl! - We- wish, name. could give her It is estima ington to take jurisdiction in the cai of the Northern Pacific and Great coronation wilt; Reversing the Proverb, land needn't feel It is estimated that there are not | 88¥8 the Chicago more than 10,000 left in the | lot of it.wilh be Tea a money. ; CUBA'S FRIENDS VICTORIOUS. Firat Test of Strength in the House Shows a Majority of Ninety-Seven for Reciprocity, Washington, April 8—The del upon the Cuban reciprocity opened in the house Tuesday. was much activity among the 1ff ‘ on both sides before the h con- vened in anticipation of the coming battle and when the speaker called the house to order at noon the at _ tendance on the floor was unusually large. Mr. Payne, chairmaii of the ways and means committee and lead- er of the majority, then moved ‘that the house go into committee of the whole for the consideration of the Cuban reciprocity bill. The battle be- gan immediately. Mr. Tawney (Minn.) demanded to know upon what the- ory the bill was privileged. Mr. Payne replied that the bill was one affecting revenue and the speaker sustained that view. The motion to go into ; committee of the whole was carried, 177 to 80. IT’S A DRASTIC MEASURE. By the Terms of the Bill Which Passed the House All Chinege Are Excluded, Washington, April 8—The passed the Chinese exclusion bill, incorporating in it several ments which increased the deartic' character of the measure. The prim- cipal one not only excludes Chinese by birth and descent, but all Chinese of mixed blood. As passed the. bill practically re-enacts all the existing eguiations, It extends these exelu- sion laws to the Philippines and the - other possessions of the United States and forbids Chinese labor in our colo- nial possessions coming into this country, The Philippine commission, by the terms of the bill, is directed to adopt proper, measures for the en- forcement of the provisions of the bill in the Philippines, MONGOLIANS IN REVOLT. Three Thousand Chinese Troops and Krapp Guas Dispatched to Suppress the Latest Anti-Indemalty Uprising. Tien Tsin, April 8.—Three thousand * Chinese troops and a number of Krupp guns have been dispatched tg are in revolt against the severegin- demnity taxation, Several villflger have been strongly fortified and their inhabitants are determined te. fight. They say they are assured of the assitance-of-30,000dfsattected persone. Mr. Payne said that in time United States exports to Cuba would amount to $200,000,000. While he did not want Cuba annexed he believed that in time she would be a part of the United States, NEARING BURIAL PLACE, Body of Cecil Rhodes Arrived at Bula- wayo Tuesday—Final Services to _ Be Held Tharsday. Bulawayo, Matabeleland, April 8— The funeral train conveying the body of Cecil Rhodes, which left Cape Town April 3, arrived here Tuesday. The town was draped in mourning and prastically the entire population ac- companied the coffin to Drill hall, wheve it is lying in state. Massesypf wreaths are banked about the bi Wednesday the coffin will be take! to the Rhodes farm, in the Matopp' district, whence it will be conveyed April 10 to the hill called “The View of the World.” The religious service there will synchronize with a memo- rial service at St. Paul’s ¢gathedral, London. PROTEST FROM SPRECKELS. Sagar Trust Magnate Says Exelasion of Legitimate Chinese Merchants Would Be Gross*Enjustice. Washington, April 8.—At the open- ing of the senate session Tuesday the president pro tem laid before the sen- ate a telegram signed by Claus Spreck- els and 20 other business men of San Francisco, protesting against the pas- sage of the Chinese exclusion. bill in its present form. The signers of the telegram declared that the exclusion of legitimate Chinese merchants, ac- cording to the privision of the meas ure, would be an act of gross in- justice. Democrats Taken by Surprise. Washington, April 8.—--When gressman Fowler moved to pass‘fun- der suspension of the rules theGen- ate bill extending for 20 years’ the charters of 650 national banks, demo- erats were taken completely by sur- prise. They attempted to filibuster, but a roll call was finally secured and the bill was passed, 117 to 48, Early Hearing of the Merge: Case. Washington, April 8—-The United States supreme court has decided: to] hear arguments next Monday upon’ the application of thé state of Wash Northern merger. ‘ Reld Declines Britain's Invitation. Washington, April 8.—Whitelaw\ - Reid, head of the special embassy. to evening—and sang,it well—refused, in |"€Present the United States at, the’ Persistent efforts of | Coppnation of King Edward VIL, the tender of the. i a Ss