The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 15, 1902, Page 2

———————EE MR. VEST ADDS TO HISTORY Correct Version of a Civil War Incident by the Senator. The Missourian Said That at the Con- ference in Hampton Roads in 1804 Mr. Lincoln Offered to Accept Only Surrender. Washfugton, May ofthe Philippine bill in the Senate to- day, while it seareely avated in bit- terness, took on an amusing phase, Ina breezy speech, Mr. Dolliver, of lowa, made such a good natured and yet such a sarcastic arraignment of §.—Diseussion Mr. Carmack, of Tennessee, that sena- tors and occupants of the crowded galleries were convulsed with laugh- ter, While, seemingly cansiderable temper was aroused by the debate, good feeling was shown by theactive participants in the war of words, Mr, Dolliver and Mr, Carmack cordi- ally shook hands and laughed over the encounter, Mr, Vest, of Missouri, called atten- tion to the statement of Mr. Tillman that at the historic conference in Yampton Roads in 1864, between President Lincoln, William H, Sew- in], Secretary of State; Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President of the onfederate states; R. M. T. Hunter, ex- United States senator, and John \, Campbell, formerly justice of the Vnited States supreme court, Presi- dent Lincoln wrote upon a piece of paper “Save the Unien,” then, hand- ingittoStephens, said: ‘‘Alexander, take this paper and fill up for your- selves the conditions of peace be- tween the two countries.” Mr. Vest said the story had been denied by John H. Reagan, of Texas, who was the last surviving member of the Confederate cabinet. Heknew Soho poco Treonly, sald Mr, Vest, without aving been present at that celebrat- linterview, that the incident was vithout the slightest foundation, “If true,” said he, ‘it would place the zovernigent and otticers of the Con- cgalewntte stute in the category of eriminals, because it offered the Con- federacy all that it ever demanded in the wildest hope of the most extreme partisans of that cause if they would only return to the Union.” HEARD EVERY WORD VEST SAID, \ deep silence had fallen upon the chamber and every senator on the tloor listened to him with close at- tention, Mr, Vest continued: “Iftrue, it would mean that the Confederates could have placed on tbat sheet of paper the perpetual es- tablishment of slavery and the right of secession, the most extreme de- mand that had ever taken locality ever in the dream of any Confeder- ate.” From the lips of Stephensand Hunter had come to him, he said, the details of what took place. Upon the return of the commissioners of the Confederacy he heard their offi- ‘ial report, as Mr, Reagan heard it, the latter being 4 member of the cab- inet and the speaker (Mr. Vest) a member of the Confederate Senate. “J am to-day the only surviving member of the twenty-six gentlemen who acted as Confederate senators,” he said. Mr. Vest then stated that what did happen at Hampton Roads beyond syuestion was this: That when the President and Secretary Seward met the commissioners of the Confeder- acy, Mr. Lincoln, addressing himself to Mr. Hunter, whom he knew well, said: ‘In the first place, gentlemen, I desire to know what are your pow- ers and instructions from vhe Rich- amond government,” avoiding, said Mr. Vest, as Mr. Hunter told him thimself, the words, “Confederate State” | Mr. Hunter, to whom the inquiry was addressed, said: “‘Mr. President, we are instructed to consider no proposition that does not involve the independence of the Confederate States of America.” — “Then,” said - r. Lincoln, “the in- tverview had as’ well terminate now, for I must say to you, gentlemen, frankly and honestly, that nothing will be accepted from the government at Richmond except absolute and un- conditional surrender.” LINCOLN’S WARNING TO STEPHENS, MP. Vest said that this terminated “the interview and as the Confederate commissioners retired President Lin- eoln, addressing Stephens, who was you are making g, great mistake. ard lpi hatha em it soon see, which must come to your pec. ple.” “This account of. that interview,’ continued Mr. Vest, “substantially and almost word for word as I have given it, came to me from Stephens and Mr. Hunter.” Mr. Vest said that he considered it his duty to make this statement in order that history might not be falsi- fied; in order that the men who were said to have refused this offer at the hands of President Lincoln should not be made to sin their graves, add- ing, “For if they had refused what was snid to have been tendered to them by the President they would have been accessories to the murder of every man who fell from that time in defense of the Confederate cause, and they should have given the lieto the intentions which they professed when they risked everything, every- thing that is held dear amongst men, in defense of the Confederate caluse.” While the deep silence still reigned in the chamber as he spoke, ahd with every eve directed toward him, Mr. Vest closed as follows: ‘It may be buta very short time until I shal join the twenty-five colleagues | had in the Confederate Senate, and I did not want the statement to go into the record of this country without my statement of these facts and my solemn denial that there is a shadow of truth in this assertion which has heen voing the rounds of the newspa- pers of the country for the last few years.” $100 Reward $100. The readers of this paper will be pleas- ed to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity, Catarrh being a constitution- al disease, requires, a constitutional teatment. Hall’s Ca *arrh Cure is taxen internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surtaces of the sys- tem, therebv destroying the foundation ot the disease, and giying the patient strength by building up the constitution rest rors gy its Work. The proprietors haye so much taith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars tor any ‘case that it tails tu cure. Send tor list of testimon- ials, Address F., J. Cugngy & Co., Toledo, O. ge@yrSold by druggis 75 Salmon Salad Poisoned One Hundred. San Antonie, Tex., May 8.—One huudred “guests were poisoned ata wedding feast at Monte Morelos, near Montefey, Mexico, last Monday. Many of them.were made dangerous- ly ill, but at last reports none had died. Monte Morelos is a small town about one hundred miles southeast of the Monterey, on the Mouterry & Mexican Gulf railroad. The wedding was that of Antonio G. Cantu and Lenora Cantu. Two hundred guests, many of them from Monterey, sat down to the feast. Soon after they began eating one hundred were affect- ed. Investigation showed that they had been poisoned by salmon salad, the salmon cans having been opened some time before the contents were used. Cyclists should always carry a bot- tle of Ballard’s Snow Liniment, in case of accident, if applied immediate- ly, it will subdue the pain, prevent swelling and discoloration, and quickly heal the wounds. Price, 25 and 50 cents.—H. L. Tucker. Chaffee Goes to Mindanao. Manila, May 7.—Gen. Chaffee sailed to-day on the transport Ingalls for the Lanao distriet of the Island of Mindanao. Gen. Davis telegraphed that he thought the presence of the military governor of the Philippines would have a favorable effect on the Moros and Gen. Chaffee immediately replied by going to Mindanao. He has ordered Gen. Davis to arrange a conference with the prominent sur- viving sultans and dattos. Children who are weak, fretful or troublesome should be given a few doses of White’s Cream Vermifuge. They will then become strong, healthy and active, have rosy cheeks, bright eyes, will bog, and laugh- ingail the day long. , 25 cents. —H. L. Tucker. CSTNTIN eens dear wo | move them except by slog bot water fnjeotious Chronic constipation for seven years placed me in this terrible condition; rorite hood time I did‘ey- | erything | heard of but never found relief; such was my case until ee ae ‘ARETS. was is such @ relief.” - AYLMER L. HUNT, 1689 Russell 8t.. Detroit, Mick. A®@ i re ven a B GOV. DAVIS GRANTS NEGRO A-PARDON. Mast Become a Citizen of Massachu- setts ia Thirty Days. | Little Rock, Ark., May 6.—Gov- jernor Jefferson Davis to-day pardon- | ed Andrew Thompson, a negro, on condition that Thompson go to: Massachusetts within the next thirty days with the intention of becoming | izen of that state. Thompson was convicted of assault with intent to kill and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. The governor makes the following indorsement on the application for pardon: “Baving returned from the north | and having heard many expressions | ofsympathy by the citizens of Massa-; chusetts for what they were pleased | to call the poor, oppressed negro of the south, and desiring that they shall have an opportunity to reform a certain portion of the negro popu- lation of our state, therefore I, Jef- ferson Davis, governor of tue state of Arkansas, by virtue of the constitu- tion and authority vested in me by the constitution and laws of Arkan- sas, do grant unto Andrew Thomp- son, a negro, a free and full pardon on condition that he become within the next thirty days a citizen of, Massachusetts.” ac BRITISH DRAGNET CATCHES 288 BOERS. Captured Men Represent Most Irrecon- cilable Element of Orange River. London, May 7.—Advice received here to-day from South Africa an- nounce that 288 Boers werecaptured and 10 burghers were killed in the neighborhood of Lindley, Orange River Colony, yesterday. Lord Kitchener, in reporting the Tear Lindley, saic that the British troops forming a continuous line, left the Frankfort, Heilbron and Vredefort line at dawn without wheels of any sort, and pro- ceeded rapidly south, reaching the Kroonstad and Lindley neighbor- hood with the.result announced. The British casualties were nil. The captured men represent the most irreconcilable Boers in the Orange River Colony, The town O'Okiep, Western Cape Coloney, which had been besieged since April 4 by a Transvaal force under Commandant Smuts, has been relieved by a British force under Colonel Cooper. The garrison was in good health and only a few of the troops were wounded. The Boers re- tired south after tie fight. Lord Kitchener, in reporting the relief of O’Okiep, adds that the Con- cordia district, in about the same part of Cape Colony, is clear of Boers. Don’t despair because you have a weak constitution, The vitalizing principle of Herbine will assuredly strengthen it. In every drop of Her- bine there is life. There is a stimu- lating, regenerating power, unequal- edin the whole range of medicinal gee Price, 50 cents.—H 4. Tucker. Twine Made by Prisoners. Lansing, Kan., May 6.—The bind- ing twine product of the Kansasstate penitentiary this season, which, it is estimated, willamount to one million pounds, will be cffered for sale to the formers and the dealers of the state at ten cents per pound in lots of 5, 000 pounds and over, f. o. b. at{Lan- sing, and at 10% cents for any @mount under 5,000 pounds. The wholesale price of binding twine is 11% cents per pound in carload lots at the Missouri river, and it is esti- mated that it takes between 7,000,- 000 and 8,000,00U pounds tosupply the Kansas farmers in an ordinary season. Trustees Suie Whereas, Samuel W. Gillilaud, a single man, by his deed of trust, dateu January 16th, 140, and recorded in the recorder « office thin and for Kates county, Missouri, in hook undersigned real estate lyii ve n the county of Bates, state New Jersey Couple Sign Agreements to Wait to Wed. Man Enlists for Service in Philip- pines to Remain Single Until He Can Returns Claim Girl Who Promises to Be True. Lemuel Meekins, of Fairview, N. J., wants to be a soldier in the Philip- pines for three years, and to make sure of a wife upon his return, he called on Justice of the Peace George F. Seymour at Hoboken the other night, in company with Miss Laura Morgenson, of Granton, whom he intends to make his bride. Miss Morgenson is about 20 and is a tele- graph operator in New York city. Meekins is 25, and he will resign a position in a New York department store in order to enlist. The couple had drawn up two agreements which they formally signed before the jus- tice. One agreement is as follows: * “I, Lemuel Charles Meekins, do sacredly vow to remain unmarried and unengaged for a period of three years and six months from date. To pay no marked attentions to any unmarried woman or widow during said period, other than the atten- tions due from any gentleman. To carry on no correspondence by mail or communication by telephone with any unmarried woman or widow; or, wounded on the field of battle, to re- ceive care or attention only from those employed regularly as nurses, and to receive no attention froma hool- teacher who may be in the Philippines Juving said period, and T do further agree to save from my regular pay 75 per cent, of all moneys received from the United States government during the term of my enlistment.” Miss Morgenson's agreement is equally interesting, Itisas follows: “I, Laura Amelia Morgenson, do sa- eredly vow to remain unmarried and unengaged for the period of three years and six months from date; to receive no marked attention from any unmarried man or widower during the period of three years and six months; not to be escorted to or from, or to be present at, any church service, church social entertainment, concert, mu- sieale, pienie, excursion, outing. = Il game or any place of public amusement, or reception, with any unmarried man or widower, or any man other than members of my imme- diate famil And T do sacredly vow arry on any communication or correspond by mail or by ‘phone with any unmarried man or widower, or en- courage, promote ér foster any court- ship whatsoever during the said period of three rs and six months.” ater, basel LOVE LEADS TO DISASTER. Widow of a Locomotive Engineer Fails to Recover Damages Be- cause Kins Caused Wreck, The supreme court of Ohio has af- firmed the judgment of/the superior court of Cincinnati agginst Mrs, John G. Price, who brought/ suit for $10,000 damages for the deatl/ of her husband, an engineer on the Haltimore & Ohio, who was killed in a collision. It was Price’s habit when the train passed his house to throw a kiss to his wife, who was always on the look- out for the expected greeting. One day the look toward the home and woman that he loved proved fatal. On account of the presence of a Van- derbilt special train on the road sched- ules had been disarranged and but a short distance from the spot where Price’s home stood was a train wait- ing on the track. Disaster would have been averted had the engineer’s eyes been fixed on the track ahead, The casualty was one of the worst that ever happened in Cincinnati, half a dozen persons being killed and many injured. WILL TEACH jOURNALISM. New School May Be Established in Some Centrally Located City of Germany, A school of journalism is proposed for Germany. The leading press asso- ciations are being sounded by the pro- moters of the scheme and asked to give an opinion on its feasibility. It is proposed to begin in some cen- tral city, Frankfurt-on-the-Main and Dresden are suggested. The curri- culin will not,embrace stenography or mechanics. Lectures will be given on leader- writing, feuilleton-writing, editing telegraph, “padding,” foreign press methods (especially English and American), arrangement of news, etc. Instruction will be given, also, in the business of journalism. The course is to last two years, three terms each year. To Tour Europe in an Auto, W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., expects tw sat in a few days for Europe for a three months’ automobile tour. The date forty| depends upon the health of Mrs, Van- a5 fe 3 i derbilt, who is to accom After a brief sojourn in ny him. jon, and statt, Germany, where the machine in which they make the tour has re- cently been completed. A BINDING AFFATR,| later in Paris, they will go to Cazin- | Pheumatisin The liniment bottle and flannel strip are familiar objects in nearly every household. They are the weapons that have been used for generations to fight old Rheumatism, and are about as effective in the battle with this giant disease as the blunderbuss of our forefathers would be in modern or . * ‘ Rheumatism is cau: an acid, sour =~ condition of the blood. It is filled with acrid, irritating matter that settles in the joints, muscles and nerves, and liniments and oils nor nothing else applied externally can dislodge these gritty, corroding particles, They were deposited there by the blood and can be reached only through the blood, Rubbing with liniments sometimes relieve temporarily the aches and pains, but these are only symptoms which are liable to return with every change of the weather; the real disease lies deeper, the blood and system are thfected. Rheumatism cannot be radically and permanently cured until the blood has been purified, and no remedy does this *o thoroughly and promptly as S. S. S. It neutralizes the acids and sends a stream of rich, strong blood to the affected parts, which dissolves and washes out all foreign materials, and the sufferer obtains happy relief from the torturing pains, S. S. S. contains no potash or other mineral, but is a perfect vegetable blood purifier and most exhilarating tonic. Our physicians will advise, without chai all who write about their case, and we wil send free our special book on R) eumatism THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. ATTENTION BREEDERS, and its treatment, CASTORIA Yor Iafauis cud Children, The Kind You riave Always Bought Bears the Signature of Cpl itden elite — BLAMO. Will stand the present season of 1902 at my barn Smiles due cast of butler, and 8 4 mite south of Montrose anit Butler road and 1-2 miles weet of Spruce, Description a d Pi digree:—Elamo is coal black, mealy nose aod is the rise of 15 hands hig’ he weighed 1200 pounda, was sired by the fine imported Jack direct from Spain, br ought to Guoper Co., by Charles Leonard, The dam v1 Elamo was a 80 Out of an imported Jack and Black Knight dam owned by A, Felger, Clarkeburg, Mo, A sadale stallion will be kept at the same This fine roadster and all pu stallion, Road Chief, still stands in Butler, two blocks north of the west school building at the very low price of $10 to insure a living colt, ROAD CHIEF stable ‘Lerms:—$8 to insure a colt to stand and suck, the money is due when coitis foaled ‘Tne coit tana good jor the season, After service been rendered any one eelling, trading or ut to remove mare forfeits insurance and noney must be paid, here isno better bred Jack ig the state of iesourl, except bis father who was im > 8) gh claes roadster end farm stock and his colts command gond prices, being of good color, (wem are coming back, ‘The value of uinported | Size and extra finish and many of them mal Stock 1s demonstrated by the fact, that breeders | f00d combined horses fitted for either sada of thoroughbred catue ‘import stock to keep up ; harness. Road Chief's individuality for the ‘breed of their herds. Breeders should | size style and action cannot be excelled by, any come early in the morning or late iu the even- | horse standing in Bates county, ing. aw anise a id the fine mule jack, ‘GEN LEE’ , same barni toingure a - DEWITT McDANIEL. | fudeapoties et We invite breede's to see thi breeding elsewhere and will tak great pleasnre in showin; me even if you do not breed, J. W. & J, S. Warnock, THE TWO PERCHEON STALLIONS, are well plea ed wi A Most Liberal Offer. All our farmer‘readérs should tak advantage of the unprecedented ¢lub- bing offer we this year make, which includes with this paper The Live Stock Indicator, its special Farmers’ Institute Editions aud The Poultry Farmer, These three publications are the best of their class and should be in every farm home. To them we add, for local, county and general hews, our own paper, and make the price of the four one year only $1.25. Never before was so much superior reading matter offered for so small an amount of money. The three pa- pers named, which we club with our own, are well known throughout the West and commend themselves to the reader's favorable attention up- on mere mention. The Live Stock Indicator is the great agricultural and live stock paper of the West and Southwest; The Poultry Farmer is the most practical poultry paper for the farmer, while The Special Farm- BRILLIANT BOY AND ROVER will make the season of 1902 at my ba! north- east of Butler, on whatis known as he Joshua North farm. eae horees are registered a| Brilliant Boy, black gray, is 4 years old, weigh 1600 pounds. ver, dapple gray, is8 2.S0and 819 etree Pedi- E for c it to stand and suck, \- grees exhibited at my barn. s J. W. BARNHARDT, ers’ Institute Editions ure the most = site practical publications for the promo- Order of Publication. tion of good farming ever published. | srare or MISSOURI : fake advantage ofthis great offer, | * County of Bates, fan : as it will hold good for a short time only. Samples of these papers may be examined by calling at this ottice. 5-6m In the circuit court of Bates Count; Mo.,. Vacation April vth, 1902, Susie i, Waliow | Wm. H. Walton hr husband, plaintiffs, 4. G. Wheeler and Helen U, Wheeler hig ‘wite Nellie C, Shedd, nee Wheeler or theiy un known heirs and legal rej ives, Kae Ward A. Shedd and F, J. Tygard, defendants i Order of Publication. low at this An cy comes the plaintiffs hi . A Most Liberal Offer. 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