The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 8, 1903, Page 7

DEATH COMES TO MRS. DOCKERY, Passed Away as the New Year Came In. THS END CAME AT s:45 A. M, She Was Native of Missouri, Born in 1850, Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 1.—Mrs, Dockery, wife of the governor, died this morning. The end came at 5:45 o'clock. The end, although it was expected momentarily, came so quietly that it was hardly noticeable. The patient rested fairly well yesterday and last night, and frequently smiled und was amused with the treatment which she inhaled, although she was conscious that the end was near, She told the governor and relatives and her physician when she suffered the relapsed Tuesday night that she could not get well and that it was useless to give medicine, but she was submissive to any treatment they chose to administer, At intervals through the night she wassomewhat restless, but no more than usual, At 5:45 o'clock this morning she turned from the right to the left side and passed quietly surrounded by the governor, the physician, Dr, J. L, Thorpe, and Mrs, Margaret J. Lin- coln, of Bowling Green, Mo., and Mrs, Carrie B. Orr, of Kansas City, Mo., the only two sisters of the deceased Mrs. Dockery, a few days ago, ex- pressed sincere regret that she must die now, because it would east sucha damper over the capital city at the New Year, the opening of the legisla- ture and the festivities, The last words she uttered concern ing her illness was yesterday after- noon while she was inhaling the oxy- ben, she smilingly remarked to the physician and the governor; “This isa hard fight for life, but we will make it.” This is the third death that has taken place in the present mansion building, the other two being Gov. Marmaduke and Miss Carrie Critten. den, the daughter of Gov. Crittenden, The funeral services will beconduct- ed at the mansion at 8 o'clock to- night by Rev. Dr. Patello, of the Methodist church of this city. He will be assisted by the other pastors of the city. The remains will be taken on a cial train to Chillicothe, Mo., via Kansas City, where interment will be “made in the cemetery beside her ebildren. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Dockery was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Green- up Bird, pioneer Missourians. She was born in Liberty, Mo., in 1850, and removed with her parents to ~ Chillicothe in” 1865, where she was married to Mr. Dockery in 1869. Five years later they went to Gal- latin, where they made their perma- nent residence and where Mr. Dock- ery practiced his profession of medi- cipe until he was elected to Congress. Irs. Dockery spent most of the time with her husband at the nation- al capitol until the campaign of 1900, when he was elected governor of Missouri. Since his inauguration in January, 1901, she had been mistress of the executive mansion at the capital of Missouri. Mrs. Dockery was a lineal descend- ant of Commodore Perry, who wrote the message to Gen. Harrison after the battle of Lake Erie, “We have met the enemy and they are ours.” In appearance Mrs. Dockery was above the average height; she was a decided brunette and had sparkling blackeyes. Her manner wascordial, her light handshake of the kind that gave confidence to the diffident and sure to the stranger. er wide experience at the national capital enabled her to know menand women of all states and nations, but her loyalty to Missouri and Missou- rians enabled her to retain for the first place her friends from her native state. —As-mistress-of the executive man- sion, her heart was full of just pride in her husband’s achievements as a statesman. Her pleasures were es- sentially in her home, and yet her in- terest in the affairs of the country were never overlooked. - Mrs. Dockery Was reared a Presby- terian but beeame identitied with the ist church after hermarriage, | and Gav. Dockery were members ehurch many years. p. Dockery took great pleasure of in her duties at the mansion, and ai- now adorn‘its walls | They are a marine sketch off the coast of Nova Scotia, by C. P Weber; afarme® «+ from the brush of Bar- jbazin, ana s 'arge picture called “In jthe i lef she Midnight Sun,” by }Smiii Wid. Mrs, Dockery was the mother of eight children, all ofwhom died in infancy. QUESTION OF INDEMNITY, China in Powers’ Yoke on Road to Ruin. Washington, December 31 —The State department has heen ofticially advised through its ficcal agents in China that the second installment of $496,000 of the Chinese indemnity fund, which falls due to-morrow, must be paid in silver, or rather ona silver basis, The first installment of the indem- nity, which was due July 1 last, was likewise paid on a silver basis, the nations receiving the money reserv- ing the right to reclaim the differer between the silver and gold basis, !Some idea of the extra charge that would be imposed on China, did she yield to the almost general demand of the power for payment of these in- demnities on a gold basis, may be jwathered from the fact that, whereas the Chinese tael, which was the basis of the calculation of the indebted: hess, Was worth 74 cents at the time the agreement was signed in Pekin; and is now worth only 61 cents, The impression prevails herea mong {persons who have taken part in these settlements that the indemni- ties demanded by the powers are far beyond China’s ability, She may for a year or two borrow enough money from various internal sources to pay the installments falling due every six months, but in a short time the pow- ers will be compelled, at the risk of losing everything, to come to areads |justment of the whole indebtedness, eitherby submitting the case to arbi- ardently desires, or by a mutual agreement between the creditor na- tions, Most of the first judgment paid to the United States last July and amounting to nearly a half million dollars, was in payment of mission- ary claims for damages arising from the Boxer ontbreak, Probably nev- erin the history of the department has there been so many heavy claims presented to the attention of asettle- ment commission as these coming from missionaries as a result of the Boxer uprising. The American com- mission has cut into these with a ruthl'sshand. The claims werecom- mon to organizations and individ- uals, In one case a claim was sub- mitted amounting to $250,000 for mission property destroyed. Relia- ble affidavits show that $100,000 Wasa-generous estimate forthe prop: erty. In individual cases mission- aries put in claims for jewelry and articles of luxury. By a curious ad- justment the commission, while al- lowing some of these claims with lib- erally, has placed a very low valua- tion on human life, Man With Pistols Frightened Shaw. Washington, Jan. 2.—Seeretary Shaw went over to the treasury de- partment to read some of his letters. He took a friend from Iowa with him, The secretary found one long letter that interested him. He leaned back in his chair to read it. As he leaned back he drew one foot up on the corner of the desk. Halfa minute after the secretary put his foot on the desk an excited man, with a big pistol in each hand, burst into the room. He looked aroundand pointed the pistols at the friend from Iowa. “Don’t shoot!” yelled the Lowa man, as he put both hands high in the air. Mr. Shaw kicked his chair overand made a long leap for the other side of the room, “What's the matter?” inquired the man with the pistols. “Is this man trying to rob you?” and he motioned suggestively with | one of his pistols. “No, no!” shouted Mr. Shaw from his vantage point on the other side | of the room. | “That's uo robber! That’s my ‘friend. There’s some mistake.” | The secretary was right; there was _a mistake, | When Le put his foot on the desk, | he pressed the button that calls a watchman to his office in a hurry, aud the Watchman came ina hurry, just as he was expected to do, | Ways made it a homelike place. She! left three beautiful paintings, which | | tration at The Hague, which China| PRA S sce ~ DRUG HAFT* GROWING. Seusational Report Made by the terd fa! Committee for Suppression of the Viee. \coordi by the ix tee for the tion, the ead of the drug habit increasing at an alarming rate in this country. It is asserted that there are More than 1,000,000 morphine “fiends” in the United States, and that one per- son in every hundred is addicted to drugs, The vice is most prevalent among the wealthy classes and among phy- siclans, Many of the latter, who have become vietims of drugs, have be- come outcasts. Numbers of them have been reclaimed by the committee and but on their feet again, Doctors are blamed for the spread of the drug habit for preseribing drugs to alleviate puin, their patients often becoming “tiends.” The offices of the committee are in the Presbyterian building, 156 Fifth avenue, New York city. Rev. Ro F, Sample, D. D. Lh. D., former mod- erator of the general a nbiy, is president. “While the fo eign tield needs all poss tention, unfors tunately the dem: of our country are little short of startling report, ‘\ plea is made fora sanit: victims of the drug habit, " dle ium for Students’ Rooms at Ox‘ord Are Said to Be Dirty and Unsanitary. - British Medical Journal, After Mak- ing Investigation, Upholds the Criticivm of a American Mother. When the letier from “An Ameri- ,can Mother” calling attention to the dirty and unsanitary condition of Many students’ rooms at Oxford was first published there was a storm of , Fidicule and denial from the offi Is and old students of the univers ity. j tow dared an American we n pick flaws and insult the glorious mem- ories of Oxford by her baseless ; charges? they. demanded. The last lissue of the British Medical Journal takes up the matter, According to its information, the “Amer can | Mother” was not far from b ng righ Tt says: Many bedrooms used in the col: lege are such as would not be per- j mitted to be used in lodying-houses, being extremely smal do badly ven- tilated. In many cases sueh rooms j Were built centuries ago. Little ar nothing appears to have been done in the way of constrneting | er windows of providing other means shelters for drunkards, former jot ventilation, Viets, and fallen w@men, but none “The condition of stalreases these tims of dru and of the pantries many ine ed men and women see jStances unsatisfactory, Even in se public benefactors eou Jo no better |of the m butldines the stat than entlow a hosp for these uns] cases are inconceivably badly lighted fortunates.” and ventilated —— aos “The housemaiding of the bedrooms FLAN EXCLUSIVE RESORT, jis supposed to hw done by sont .: - : and it is not to be wondered at that Rich Men of New York, Philadelphia | these men sometimes allow. the hed. and Pittsburg to Establish Sume mer Home on Jemey Const. George J. Gould, Henry . Prick, and other capitalists in New York city, Philac establishing a new and exclusive sum- mer resort on Two Mile Beach island, which is three miles north of ( ape May City on the New Jersey coast. The | state riparian board will meet to-more row in Jersey City, and the syndicate behind “the project will apply for riparian rights in TY miles of water front Two Mile Beach, it is confidently expected that the commission will grant the syndicate’ application, and the work of trans forming the island to a resort will be begun at once, An artificial harbor will be made for the use of private yachts; boulevards and avenues will be laid out, and system of drainage established, The cost of erecting hotels and mak- ing other improvements is estimated at $2,000,000, Cottages, each costing from $15,000 to $40,000, will be built. The island hasan ocean and inlet front- age of three miles, ‘To the West, in- land, lies Jarvis sound. The official name of the syndicate is the Ocean Villa Land company, MARCONI SES FINAL GOAL. surrounding The Wireless Telegraph Wizard De« elares Trans-Atlantic Tests Ene tirely Sutisfactory. Signor Marconi admitted the other night that the wireless tests betwer u the Italian cruiser Carlo Alberto and his station at Poldlu, E gland, were entirely satisfactory. He said that " successfully trans. mnitted und received. on the cruiser While she lay in Sydney harbor here With the Cornwall station-—Ehe mes- sages were in the Morse coc nd were complete in every partic r being a great advance over the single letter * which was receivad Inst year at St. Johns, N. F. Several mes Were received, and Signor M: promises to announce the text of them ina few days. Meanwhile work on the station here is being rapidly pushed, As soon as additional material js re- ceived from Montreal and Ottawa mach longer tests will be attempted, The apparatus ha ilready been tested, and the inventor s he is satistied with it. gnor Mareonj expects to leave for Boston in the Carlo Alberto before Christmas. While in Boston he will test the Cape Cod station, He will also visit New York, RUSSIA’S COMING GREAT NAVY Ideas of the Original Peter Govern- ing the Present Emperor in Mat- ter of Battleships, A dispatch of a squadron under Rear Admiral Baron Stakhalberg to reen- force the Russian fleet in the Pacifie having called sneering comments from the English press, the Syvet, the pan-Slavie organ at St. Petersburg, says that inasmuch as Russia does not interfere with the affairs of others, she has the right to expect that others will not m » with hers, The journal adds: “Although our naval forces cannot at present be com- pared with those of Great Britain, yet We must not forget that our shipbuild- ing programme provides for a rapid in- crease sur navy. and the snecess al- ady gained by the Ru ian shipbuild- ing-yards inthis respect gives tis alee surance qhat our fleet will soon assume proportions corresponding to those of our land forces; that is to say. as the army is increased there will bea corresp ng i ein the Russian navy. which accor othe idea of its founder. Peter the Great. is to rank among the first.” Moroceco's Peril, Moroceo should have sense enough to keep-quiet. If she makes noise enough to attract the attention of the | European powers, says the Chicago Record-Herald, one of them is likely to | gobbie her, ‘Iphia, and Pittsburg, propose | inable, Tooms to vet into nar dirty and dusty condition.” RAILWAY TO REWARD HERO. | Pennsylvania Road Yelle a Maryland ' Boy Who Saved a Train to Name His Wish, Jolin Gregg, who is 14 years old and lives in Principio. Me. recently saved the Colonial express f washout, and “the nsylv rovd has placed him on the and will give him a colleg if he desires it, John prefers to he a fireman, how- nton ever, His father and mother dead, and he lives with his sister, While walking along the track he discove ered the washout just before the ex- press was due. He stripped off his coat and dashed down the tracks until he caught sight of the express flying along at a 60-mile-an-hour gait. Wav- ing the coat above his head, he waited until the trainecame toa stop and then explained the situation, When the passengers eame tumbling out of the cars to see what ha the stop the boy had disappeared, The railroad officials instituted an inves- tigation and sueceeded in learning who it was that had stopped the train, A representative of the railrond went to Principio a few days agoand hunted the boy up. He was told that the rail- road company was anxious to do some- for him, and Was asked what-he would like best in the world. He thought for a long tin and finally confessed that he t know nd was told that he cout through col- lege and learn any trade he cared to caused select, “Teness Md rather } anything,” he said. Hey a year to think it over, and if he was of the e-end-of that time lis wish will be eranted FIGHT TO DEATH IN MIDAIR. homer nthan s told totake we wnind att A Desperate Battle Between a Hawk aud Snake Costs the Lives of Both, Mack Ball. a keeper of the poorhe use in G tsville, W. Va... witnessed a thrill cht in midair between a blacksnake and a el Wk. The hawk fluttered dv yr m top of a mountain acting as if it had been wounded, and when it came he could see that it was a snake which was wrappec body and gradually squeezing the life out of it. The snake would poke its head up as if to bite the hawk in the head. and the hawk would peck at the snake with its sharp bill, The fight was continued until the life was almost crushed from the hawk, which then fell tothe ground. Mr. 1 examined and found the snake wrapped three times around the hawk’s body, the bones of which were erushed and broken. Both bird and reptile were in the throes of death. Each had killed the other in their mid- air battle. It is supposed the hawk had attempt- ed to carry the snake away in its talk ons, and that the snake coiled about the hawk and began its fight for life, A Rare Exception, A New York man has paid up $500,- 000 of old debts which his creditors never expected him to pay, but, says the Ch ) Inter Ocean, this is only one exception to the rule that in New York and elsemtere ereditors who do Not expect to be paid are seldom disap- pointed. Need of Now Matnte. A New York magisirs that it is not an offense p law to smoke cig rettes. | intimated that it onghi to he says the Chicago Chronicle His honor however, nd the in- jfimation stamps him as a most wise and upright judge. Hasty Miss Coba, Miss Cuba shouk) not go co far as {to return all of Uncle Sam's presents, ays the ¢ > Tribune. until he has had another chance to explain, FIRE} | GRAND OLD MISSOURI | William H. Wallace's Eloquent Pane- gyric in a Speech Ten Years Ago. The appellation, “Grand Old Mie- | Souri,” now so often used, is said to Wallace, of Kansas City, in his apos- trophe to Missouri in his pubiished campaign speech in 1892: “Grand, beautiful, magnificent Mis- souri! Where rolling prairies, fertile valleys, mighty forests, placid lakes, majestic rivers enchant the eye and Woo the heart: where flowers ofevery dew till the green ivy of the North and the fragrant magnolia of the home, and rebuking sectional hate, entwine their arms in tenderest love: where birds of every note and plum- age wend their merry flight, from the humming bird that flutters in the his eyrie in the craggy cliff, while the nightingale and the bobolink wake the forest with Tinging melodies sweet AS those that rose in paradise: where the perch, the crappie and the bass leap in the sunbeams and the hunt. er's horn rouses the thet footed fox and the bounding deer’ “Fertile, bounteous, exh Missouri! Where yellow harvests are locked in the golden sunshine rich as those that ripened in the land of Nile; Where corn and cotton tlourish ina common soil, and the apple and the peach grow in luscious beauty side by side; where the exhaust loss beds of coal, lead and zine lie sles ping in the earth and mountains of iron await the blazing forge, “Enterprising, majestic, imperial Missouri! Where more than ‘, mill- ion souls have swelled our numbers during the past decade: where the lights of a genuine Christian civiliza Ustless like the Hebrew giant, bursting the Withes protection ig ever tying about his limbs, is leaping. forward in the great race for material wealth and | glory with bounding strides, unsure passed in all the sisterhood ofstates, “Edueated, intelligent, God fearing Missouri! Where schoolhouses so have been originated by Willflam H. | | I hue and clime freshen in the evening | South meet each other ina common | tion, like vestal virgins, hold their | vigils unerring and undying as the | silvery stars, and where under the | soft and hallowed flame Progress, | . eee paicelsrnaeeenn nents oe thickly dot the hills and plains that Voice meets: voice of merry children lea till chorus mounts the skies: where from romping on the ous van j; every city, village and hamlet the | graceful spire and the churchgoing bell call the way to heaven; where thousands of Christian homescluster by_the_rivers_and on the-hill tops | with the open fire and the dancing | flames, with the old arm chair and | the well worn Bix.te—cherished scenes, where first we learned to lisp the | name of father, mother, brother, sis- ter. Sucred, tender, hallowed old Missouri! Beloved land of mingled joy and grief!’ Where all the flowers of youth have bloomed and grown jana childhood’s merry laughter in | Bleeful echoes lingers still to cheer | and thrill the drooping heart. Where /many a hope has perished in an hour and many a falling tear has found a | grave; where our mothers first taught us to kneel in prayer, and where un- | der the willows and by the brooke honeysuckle to the eagle that builds | the forms of loved ones gone before await ourcoming to slumber by them till the resurrection morn. Leaute. ous, glorious, consecrated old Mige souri soil! Let others defame theens they will—thank heaven, in life, in death, you are good enough forme,” Shot By Robbers, Kansas City, Mo,, December 3] In Kansas City, Kan, to day one of j two men shot and fatally wounded Jesse Bo Dulin, aged 23, keeper ofa stallat the city market on the Mis- souriside, firing from behin Dulin, ‘who was driving a wagon, arose in the seat after being shot and tired at the twomen, wounding one, but both escaped, leaving no clew, Their purpose evidently was robbery, At another point in Kansas City, Kan, atan early hotrto day, Mra, Frace Weinberg shot aman whowas attempting to rob her henlouse, He escaped, leaving a trail of blood, Putting on $10,000,000, Trenton, N.J., Dee, 31,— The Con- solidated Tobacco Co, to-day pre- sented at the secretary of state's of- tice for filing a certificate increasing its capital stock from $30,000,000 to $40,000,000, The document waa |Tejected because of some technical | imperfection, A new certiticate will be presented later, CATARR The treatment of Catarrh with antiseptic and © lotions, salves, medicated tobacco and cigarettes or any external or local application, is astringent washes, just as senseless as would be kindling a fire on top of True, these give temporary relief, but the cavities and passages of the head and the bronchial tubes soon fill up again with mucus. Taking cold is the first step towards Catarrh, for it checks perspiration, and the poisonous acids and vapors which should pass off through the skin, the pot to make it boil. are thrown back upon the mucous membrane or inner skin, a i a producing inflammation and excessive flow of mucus, ee much of which is absorbed into the blood, and through the circulation Teaches-every-part-of-the system, invoreiiy the Stomach, Kidneys and other parts of the body. When the disease assumes the dry form, the breath s red, becomes exceedingly foul, blinding headaches are frequent, the hearing affected and a constant rin gin the ears, Nor ly that does not reach the polluted blood can Catarrh. $.S.S. expels from the circul tensive matter, ain! when rich, pure blood n coursing throuns the body the mucous membranes become healthy and the skin active, all the disagreeable, paint I symptoms d pear, ¢ 1 1 ire is effec S. S. 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