The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 24, 1902, Page 6

i ay APIO ogy D. R. FRANCIS. Coleman's Rural World. Davjd Rowland Francis, president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- tion Company and ex-officio chair- man of the Executive Committee of the corporation engaged in the eon- struction of the World's Fair to be held at St. Louis in 1904. was born at Richmond, Madison county, Ken- tacky. October 1, 1850. His father, John B. Francis. was a descendant of a prominent Virginia family anda polished gentleman of the old south- ern type, The founders of the family in Ken- tueky were pioneer settlers, and the grandfather of David R. was a sol- dier in the war of 1812. His moth- er, Eliza Caldwell Rowland, was a descendant of David Irvine, of Lynch- burg, Virginin, whose ten danghters | were among the most distinguished of the pioneer women of Kentucky, and left their immress upon the his- tory and social characteristics of the state. Thelrvines were of honorable Scotch lineage, and its represerta- tives were among she earliest colon- ists of Virginia. David R. Francis inherited the phvysiea! and mental qualities of his His primary edu- eived at Richmond Academy, in his native town, .Re- sturdy ancestry ation was meving to St, Lonis in 1866, he en- tered Washington University and vas graduated in the class of ISTO, He immediately entered commercial nd for the next five vears was ved as shipping clerk and in other capacities by a wholesale gro- ery house, In TS77 he engaged in the grain bhsiness on his own. ae sunt, and seven vears later founded the well known Dr. DR. Francis & Bro, Commission Company’ and en- ad into the exportation of grain, vhich has largely engaged his atten- tion since that time Though one of the youngest mem deeid- nfor business sagacity, Francis obtained prompt and ed recognitic success in operations and prudent foresight, and was made vice presi- lent of that body in 1883, and in 1SS4 was elected president, THe is identitied with many of the most im ortant business justitutions of the ityoandisat the present tin the Missi Valley Trust and vice-president of the clede National Bank » stockholder in the st ind Colorado Railway Con. greatly interested in’ the of that line into the southw He is also closely identi- ned with the organized charities of the city. In dss85 Mr. Francis was the Demo- ! the ratie candidate for Mayor Louis, and in spit majority of 14.000 votes at tion, he Was His ad- business the last preceding el eeterhy 1,200 majority inistration was i pur ne, and, judging from results, was eminently successful. He brought tboat the reduction of interest on the imunicipal indebtedness from 6 and 7 to ed the payment of a judgment of $1,000,000 against the Pacific Rail yand 4 per cent; enfore- - Company: instituted reforms in tl ment; forced the reduction in the to $1.25 per departments of the city govern- price of gas from 32 thousand feet, aud was iustrumentat in extending the city’s water supply. gorousand successful advocacy of street reconstruction has placed the city of St. Louis in the ranks of the best paved cities of the United States. He was the progenitor of the ‘New St. Louis” of to-day. In 1888 he was nominated by the Democratic party and elected Gov- ernor of the State of Missouri. His administration was so completely successful that it is yet pointed to as a model. It was clean, broad, eco- nomical without parsimony, patri- otic and progressive. He gave much thought to, and in a most efficient manner, promoted the cause of pub- lic education, particularly aiding the State University and elevating ite standard and exalting its reputation to ite present renown. Retiring from office at the close of his gubernatorial term, Governor Francis resumed his business affairs with his former enterprise and suc- cess. In 1896 he was called by Presi- dent Cleveland to his Cabinet as Secretary of the Interior, and imme- diately brought into this largér pub- lie service the energy and thought- fulness he displayed in lesser public stations and in his private business. In the course of an exceedingly buey life he has found time to solve the problema of government and also educate himeelf in art, literature and ecience, and few men of his oaths possessed of as many and varied ac- complishments. He is an attractive PLUNGED KNIFE INTO SON'S NECK. public speaker, is entirely democratic | in his tastes and has a natural and charming personality. When the World’s Fair enterprise came to be considered, by common | jconsent and absolute unanimity Governor Francis was called on to | heaa the gigantic enterprise. He ac- cepted the commission and entered upon the work with a zeal and deter- |mination that were infectious and |gave inspiration to his lieutenants. He devotes, entirely without com- | pensation, nearly all his time tu the World's Fair work, and has organiz- ed it so thoroughly and systemically that its success is already assured. Governor Francis was married in 1876 to Miss Jennie Perry, of St. Louis, and they have six children— all boys x The Governor's home in St, Louis is one of the most benutifal and well- appointed in the city, and is the seat ofacharming and refined hospitality. Business men who lack the vim, shap and vigor they once had, should use Herbine, it will purify the blood, strengthen and invigorate the system, Prive SO) cents.—H. L. Tucker. Fixed Up Clark “Ovations,” Washington, July 17.—William Peyton Mason, of New York, alleges ina petition he las just filed, Will- iam A. Clark, jr. son of the Montana senator, paid him $2,000 to goto Kansas City during the Demoeratic national convention and arrange a labor reception for the Montana millionaire, All the newspapers told how much attention Senator Clark attractedand Mason alleges he spent all the money in fixing up made-to- Notwith standing his glorious suecess as an order labor ovations, ovation promoter, Mr. Mason alleges that Charles W. Clark, another son ofthe senator, at the Silver Bowelub malicious statements about) bim Whereby he was damaged to the ex- tent of $20,000, Mason was direct- ed by the court te furnish the bill of particulars citing the names of per sons before whom the alleged slan- Jerous words were used, “T Never Kaew Painkiller to Pail before, what ean matter be? Whereis the bottle here Tthought sopitis not Perry Davis’ Painkiller atall, but something the drugwist must have make himself and [did not not > Lo have used Painkiller for years for diarrh ! es and it ne aps and rer failed.” stou Two Princes Coming. Washington, July 17.—The state department has been informed by Minister Wu that Prince Chen, who went to London to represent the Chinese government at the corona- tion, with his suite, will sail from Enrope on the steamer Philadelphia on the ant for New York, The party will remain in the United | United States for ten days or two weeks, and will be in’ Washington about the Ist of August. Minister Buck has advised thestate department that Prince Boris, of Russia, sailed from Japan for San Francisco on the 16th instant, The 26th ins prince will remain some. time in the Vnited States, but as he comes in- coguito the government will take no steps to receive him formally, $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 or the sys- tem, therebv destroying the foundation ot the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work, The proprietors haye so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars tor any case that it tailstu cure. Send tor list of testimon- fals. Address F. J. Cueney & Co., Tuiedo,O. g@prSold bvdruggis 75c. Tragedy in Houston. Houston, Tex., July 17.—Dr. A. E. Delipscey was shot and killed this afternoon in his office by D. E. Will- iams, a real estate dealer. Thetrou- ble grose between Delipscey and Will- jams’ eon, who had been employed by Delipacey. The boy went home, told his side of the story, andina short time the shooting followed. Williams and his two sons lay in wait for Delipscey, it is alleged, and when the latter came to his office, he was struck with a club and then shot. | Little Freddy Speyer is Murdered by | His Father as He Peacefully Slept. K.C. World While a policeman stood on either side of him and not fewer than 150 people were within a few feet of him, J. W. Speyer, a “wild horse” rider, last night plunged his knife into the throat of lus 6-year-oid son, Freddie, and nearly severed the boy's head. He then tried to cut his own throat, but was knocked down and overpow- ered by Officers Jedwin and Wake- field. The boy died within two or three minutes. The murder occur- red in one of the dressing rooms of the Bartholomew's trained horse show at the Karnival Krewe carni- val, at Fifteenth and the Paseo last night at 9:30 o'clock, just as the per- formance of the show closed. The applause of the dispersing crowd drowned the gasps of the dying child, Speyer had been accused by Mrs. H. XN. Tennis of 2210 East Fifteenth street of taking Iiberties with her 8- year-old daughter, Marguerite. He was “barking” in front of the tent when Sergeant John Martin placed him underarrest and turned him over to Otticers Wakefield and Jedwin. “T want togo in the tent and get my coat,” he said to the officers, and they accompanied him to the dingy little dressing room on the left of the spectators’ seats, He got his cont and then said: “T want to undress my little boy.” Permission was granted and he knelt by a “shake-down” on the tloor where the poor little lad lay sleeping “This is all a put-up job by my wife who deserted me,” said Speyer, who removed the boy's shoes and stockings, He then plunged the knife, which has a keen, slender blade, into the sleeping child's neck and drew it around, As the blood spurt jumped to his feet, exclaiming “Now, take me!” and slashed hisownthroat with the knife from which the blood of his boy was dripping. Otficer.Jed- win knocked him down with his club and Officer Wakefield threw himself upon him, He was then led fromthe tent and taken to Fifteenth street and Flora avenue before the crowd realized what had happened. From that point Speyer was sent tocentral police station, and fron there to the reounty jail, as an attanptat lyneli ag Was feared, and tinally, owi the condition of his” self-intlieted wound, he was taken to the city hospital. The ent in his neck, whiel isaboutfour inches loug, wasattenJ ed to at the hospital aud this morn- ing it was said that he was in no im- mediate danger, Little Preddie was the pretty curly headed little fellow who rode a pony in the parade, He was a cheery lit tle chap and everyone liked him. As 1 that he was soon as it was kn dead a collection was taken up for flowers and to give him a burial. The body was sent to Carroll-David son's undertaking rooms by Deputy Coroner Brown, who viewed the body, An inquest will be held this after noon. The boy had been promised a place with the pony show and expect- | HUMAN SKIN TANNED. Fond da Lac, Wis., Factory Makes Leather from Epidermis Fur- nished by Chicago Student, The Fréd Reuping Leather com- | pleted the tanning of a human skin. of the employes of the company. The skin is in two pieces—one about 12 by 20 inches in size taken from the back and one 12 inches square taken from the breast. The skm was brought to the city about three weeks ago by a student of a Chicago medical college. The president of the tanning company refused to have anything to do with it, but when one of the foremen was approached he agreed to run it through, as he said he was curious to know how, it would come out. The foreman had tanned almost every other kind of skin, including frog, toad, lizard, rat and cat. The hide was received in a badly decomposed condition, but it was labeled as a “pig skin” and placed in the vat and soaked for several days, when it was taken out and scraped and afterward put through the chrome process of tanning. The job turned out well, and the skin came out thin and pliable, During the process of tanning it was handled by but few hands, yet one or two of the workmen discoy- ered the real nature of the = skin, The foreman was very reticent re- garding the matter, as he did not wish to have trouble with his com- pany or the workmen, The tanned skin has much the ap» pearance of dog skin, and the fore- man said it would take an expert to tell the difference, Close inspee- tion, however, reveals the pores and lines peculiar to the human epider- mis, WOMAN CARRIES A CANE. Miss Alice Morton of New York, Gives the Guests at Chi nwo Hotel a Surprise, Patrons of the Auditorium Annex at Chicago are talking about the "woman with the cane.” who arrived in Chicago from New York, She is Mies Aliee Mor ton, niece of the late Vice President Levi I. Morton, ‘ arr Att TE TTOSe velt: startled Ws society by appe atanafternoon tea witha wi stick clasped in her neatly gloved hand, It said then th new fashion had been started and society women generally throughout the United States would be adopting the “stick.” Miss Morton entered the corridor of the annex attired in a ¢’ose-titting brow: brown eslonial hat, anc brows Her } and eves are brown, too, Inher right hand sheen ried a small cane of brown wood, en cireled by a silver serpent with emer: Her maid walked behind her, a brown ¢ nus, As st fthe Boston ter- started toward the elevator she was met by a friend, She was heard to say that she son her way to San Franci Im answer to a remark about her eane she said: “You don't mean to say this is the first one you have seen! We allen sticks in New Ye You know, ty 1 Ww a hit-slow of-its reputation for rushing BEST BARGAINS OF HIS LIFE. Mr, Carnegie Considers His Gifts to Found Libravies Are “Clever Strokes of Kusiness, The Freedom of the Plumbers Com- pany, Le » Was presented to An- drew Carnegi e the other day at the Guild hall, in a valuable casket’ of various metals, Replying to the pre- sentation address, Mr. Carnegie de- clared he thought it more dificult to ntiously distribute wealth than ed to begin his work to-day Speyer is one of the best riders in the United States. He is about 33 years-old-and tooksike-wcowboy: He joined the show in Florida last April Prior to the engagement he gave street exhibitions. His posses- sions consist of a few old clothes, a saddle and two borses. His wife and daughter live in New Orleans. Herbine clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, cures headaches, regulates the stomach and bowels, stimulates the liver, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of the health. Price, 50cents.—H. L. Tuck- er. Overwork Drove Him Insane. Warrensburg, Mo, July 17.—H. C. Van Mater, editor of the Warrens- burg Standard-Herald, postmaster and chairman of the xepublican county central committee, was taken to the Nevada usylum this morning by Sheriff Koch. Mr. Van Mater has been in failing health fer several months and went to Colorado fora rest. The altitude was too high and he returned yesterday. In the night he became violently insane. Hiscon- dition is attributed to overwork. If the stomach, liver and bowels fail to perform their functions » larly and naturally, the blood comes contaminated withim Stope the Cold and Works off the and the whole system is in consequ- Cold. ‘able for its efficacy in curi Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets cure a cold in one day. No cure, no pay. Price 25 cents. ence debilitated. Herbine is remark- the ail- mente of summer, and the disorders revalent d hot water. Price, 0 cente.—H. L. Tucker. ‘upon to to acquire it, “It is the swimming tenth, and not the submerged tenth which we can ¢ tit,” said on which the had derived from his gifts arose from what he had induced individuals and communities to give. “T think it will be found,” he add- el, “that far from being a philan- thropist, | am engaged in making the best bargains of my life. For in- stance, when New York had been given over £1,000,000 for 72 libraries, 1 succeeded in getting a pledge from her that she would furnish sites and maintain these libraries forever, Her investment (I hope this may not go across the Atlantic to alarm her) is greater than wine. This is not phil- anthropy. It is a clever stroke of business. 1 am now open to proposi- tions of a similar character from cities in any part of the English- speaking world.” he.-—Any—satiste from America, It is a little startling to learn that the Swiss watchmakers, after being distanced in competition by their American rivals during the last quar- ter of a century, have installed Amer- ican machinery and are now selling their product in the United States to a very large extent. It thus appears that the foreigner cannot be relied acknowledge American mechanical supremacy without mak- ing a final effort, and whet has hap- pened in the watch trade may occur in other industries. The European manufacturer, says the Chicago Chroa- lcle, is learning to take a leaf out of the American book. An Unfortanate Individual, Mr. Alfred Austin has just published & new volume of poems, says the Chi- cago Chronicle. Fortunately nobody but the proofreader has to read them and as he is hardened to such things be will probably recover, pany, of Fond du Lac, has just com- | The discovery was made through one | For Infants and EThe Kind You Have Always Bought. ’ Bears the | 07 1 LPO AVegetable aration for As- similating ie hiod andRegula- }| ting the Stamachs of INFANTS © CHILDREN! Promotes Digestion,Cheerful- ness and Rest.Contains neither m,Morphine nor Mineral. T NARCOTIC. Signature | of | Aperfect Remedy for Constipa- tion, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms Convulsions Feverish- || ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of WATCH ST. LOUIS. 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